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tourist
April 26th, 2009, 11:55 AM
I just upgraded to 9.04, and after getting a new GRUB menu, choosing any of the options will get me a "Starting up... Loading, please wait..." message. Unfortunately, waiting a considerable amout of time will not get it to load.

Thanks for your help!

Triptol
April 26th, 2009, 04:34 PM
Do you see the Ubuntu splash?

Or anything, like an error?

If you get the Ubuntu splash try pressing alt+f2 and see what the console tells you. We need more info to be able to help you out here.

tourist
April 26th, 2009, 04:41 PM
I figured it's not really enough, but I don't really know what else I could tell you. No splash screen, just the text.

Any ideas?

meierfra.
April 26th, 2009, 10:20 PM
In order to get a clearer picture of your setup, I suggest to boot from the Ubuntu LiveCD and download the Boot Info Script to your desktop:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/bootinfoscript/

Then open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type:


sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script*.sh

That will create a "RESULTS.txt" file in the same directory from where the script is run, namely your desktop; please copy/paste the contents of the RESULTS.txt file to your next post, highlight the copied text, and click the pound/hash sign "#" graphic button in the Ubuntu forum message box so that the text will get "code" tags put around it. The results of that script will help clarify your setup and hopefully what the solution to your booting problem might be.

tourist
May 14th, 2009, 07:40 PM
Okay, so it's been a couple of weeks and the problem still exists, so enough is enough. Here are the contents of the results.txt file:


============================= Boot Info Summary: ==============================

=> Grub0.97 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive
in partition #5 for /boot/grub/stage2 and /boot/grub/menu.lst.

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ntfs
Boot sector type: Windows Vista
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System: Windows Vista
Boot files/dirs: /bootmgr /Boot/BCD /Windows/System32/winload.exe /grldr

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: Extended Partition
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 9.04
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/menu.lst /etc/fstab

sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: swap
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:

=========================== Drive/Partition Info: =============================

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcf17cf17

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 2,048 465,981,389 465,979,342 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 465,981,390 488,392,064 22,410,675 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 465,981,453 487,347,839 21,366,387 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 487,347,903 488,392,064 1,044,162 82 Linux swap / Solaris


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

/dev/sda1: UUID="24DC1247DC121420" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" UUID="3d773884-a3a2-496d-8d2d-1730b1aa3494"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"

=============================== "mount" output: ===============================

/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
/dev/scd0 on /cdrom type iso9660 (ro,noatime)
/dev/loop0 on /rofs type squashfs (ro,noatime)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/ubuntu/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=ubuntu)
/dev/sda1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)


=========================== sda5/boot/grub/menu.lst: ===========================

default 0
timeout 10
color white/black white/brown

### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below

## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs

## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c ro

## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c

## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true

## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false

## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash

## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false

## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=

## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0

## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single

## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all

## specify if running in Xen domU or have grub detect automatically
## update-grub will ignore non-xen kernels when running in domU and vice versa
## e.g. indomU=detect
## indomU=true
## indomU=false
# indomU=detect

## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true

## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false

## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false

## ## End Default Options ##


title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid 1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid 1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c ro single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid 1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c
kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

=============================== sda5/etc/fstab: ===============================

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=1b6a9c0a-43ed-4c89-85c4-5fbf831ad36c / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=3d773884-a3a2-496d-8d2d-1730b1aa3494 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/disk ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
//192.168.0.4/ /media/mc smbfs defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

=================== sda5: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


243.6GB: boot/grub/menu.lst
243.6GB: boot/grub/stage2
243.7GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.27-11-generic
243.7GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
243.8GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-11-generic
243.7GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic
243.7GB: initrd.img
243.7GB: initrd.img.old
243.7GB: vmlinuz
243.8GB: vmlinuz.old

Thanks!

tourist
May 15th, 2009, 04:07 PM
...anyone?