Gnusboy
August 8th, 2009, 11:15 AM
I've posted this twice and so far have received 1 suggestion - and it did not work.
I have read through many forums and cannot get a clear idea or a simple work around to make 9.04 boot properly - like it is supposed to work.
I don't mind doing a reinstall, if necessary, but I'd like to know how to avoid the issue in the future.
This is the situation:
9.04 Suddenly Won't Boot -previously worked fine.
Boot problem: Jaunty runs through startup, gets to splash page, appears to load and then display goes black before logon. (I tried Ctl-alt-f2 - nothing)
Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 installed about 3 weeks ago and it functioned fine until it suddenly did not. I had Shut it down as usual, but when I booted later, it went through POST up to the splash page and then no display. No user or password space - just dead.
Reconnected other machine, read forum. Tried booting through recovery mode solutions generic kernels 2.6.28-14, 13, 11- AND recoveries from Grub as listed.
None of the recovery options generic or recovery modes got me past initial splash screen.
Also tried repair modules - nada.
Everything was working fine until I made 1 change in the keyboard assignment area - I thought I turned off the Caps Lock, and enabled it with shift-caps. (can't recall exact phrase)
Did nothing else that I can recall.
Apparently, this was an earlier problem, but the threads died before I could find out how to bring up the terminal without a password and then add some code.
I'd prefer not stumbling around in a dark room and barking my shins more than I have. The fun of this adventure is wearing thin.
Thanks
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System: ASUS M3A78-EM, integrated ATI Radeon HD3200 GPU, AMD 4-Core 9850, 4 GB 800 mhz ram, 640 HDD, Ubuntu 9.04,
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Any ideas?
Thanks
I have read through many forums and cannot get a clear idea or a simple work around to make 9.04 boot properly - like it is supposed to work.
I don't mind doing a reinstall, if necessary, but I'd like to know how to avoid the issue in the future.
This is the situation:
9.04 Suddenly Won't Boot -previously worked fine.
Boot problem: Jaunty runs through startup, gets to splash page, appears to load and then display goes black before logon. (I tried Ctl-alt-f2 - nothing)
Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04 installed about 3 weeks ago and it functioned fine until it suddenly did not. I had Shut it down as usual, but when I booted later, it went through POST up to the splash page and then no display. No user or password space - just dead.
Reconnected other machine, read forum. Tried booting through recovery mode solutions generic kernels 2.6.28-14, 13, 11- AND recoveries from Grub as listed.
None of the recovery options generic or recovery modes got me past initial splash screen.
Also tried repair modules - nada.
Everything was working fine until I made 1 change in the keyboard assignment area - I thought I turned off the Caps Lock, and enabled it with shift-caps. (can't recall exact phrase)
Did nothing else that I can recall.
Apparently, this was an earlier problem, but the threads died before I could find out how to bring up the terminal without a password and then add some code.
I'd prefer not stumbling around in a dark room and barking my shins more than I have. The fun of this adventure is wearing thin.
Thanks
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System: ASUS M3A78-EM, integrated ATI Radeon HD3200 GPU, AMD 4-Core 9850, 4 GB 800 mhz ram, 640 HDD, Ubuntu 9.04,
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Any ideas?
Thanks