Problems with boot after upgrading to 10.04

[hbsmiley7]

Ok, so I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.10 to 10.04 on my Asus EeePC 1000HA and now I have issues during boot up.
Now every time during boot it hangs on a blinking cursor for a while, but then it either boots up awkwardly, although seemingly fine, or else it boots up into the default gnome theme (the grey one) in an almost unusable manner.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Below are the results of boot_info_script:


Boot Info Script 0.55 dated February 15th, 2010

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

=> Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks on the same drive in
partition #1 for /boot/grub.

sda1: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: ext3
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Operating System: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Boot files/dirs: /boot/grub/grub.cfg /etc/fstab /boot/grub/core.img

sda2: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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

sda5: __________________________________________________ _______________________

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

sda6: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system: vfat
Boot sector type: Fat32
Boot sector info: No errors found in the Boot Parameter Block.
Operating System:
Boot files/dirs:

sda4: __________________________________________________ _______________________

File system:
Boot sector type: -
Boot sector info:
Mounting failed:
mount: unknown filesystem type ''

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

Drive: sda ___________________ __________________________________________________ ___

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Partition Boot Start End Size Id System

/dev/sda1 * 63 68,356,574 68,356,512 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 68,356,575 312,480,314 244,123,740 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 68,356,638 72,276,434 3,919,797 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 72,276,498 312,480,314 240,203,817 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda4 312,480,315 312,576,704 96,390 ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)


blkid -c /dev/null: __________________________________________________ __________

Device UUID TYPE LABEL

/dev/sda1 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 ext3
/dev/sda2: PTTYPE="dos"
/dev/sda5 176a7556-49c4-4bb4-9cc9-c4d1e89b4261 swap
/dev/sda6 D12E-9293 vfat
/dev/sda: PTTYPE="dos"

============================ "mount | grep ^/dev output: ===========================

Device Mount_Point Type Options

/dev/sda1 / ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/sda6 /home/michael/Storage-vfat vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000)


=========================== sda1/boot/grub/grub.cfg: ===========================

#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then
load_env
fi
set default="0"
if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then
set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry}
save_env saved_entry
set prev_saved_entry=
save_env prev_saved_entry
set boot_once=true
fi

function savedefault {
if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then
saved_entry=${chosen}
save_env saved_entry
fi
}

function recordfail {
set recordfail=1
if [ -n ${have_grubenv} ]; then if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then save_env recordfail; fi; fi
}
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
set gfxmode=640x480
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe
if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
# For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
# understand terminal_output
terminal gfxterm
fi
fi
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
set locale_dir=($root)/boot/grub/locale
set lang=en
insmod gettext
if [ ${recordfail} = 1 ]; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=10
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set menu_color_normal=white/black
set menu_color_highlight=black/light-gray
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-21-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.32-21-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-20-generic' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
menuentry 'Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.31-20-generic (recovery mode)' --class ubuntu --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
recordfail
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
echo 'Loading Linux 2.6.31-20-generic ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic root=UUID=589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 ro single
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin
}
menuentry "Memory test (memtest86+, serial console 115200)" {
insmod ext2
set root='(hd0,1)'
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13
linux16 /boot/memtest86+.bin console=ttyS0,115200n8
}
### END /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86+ ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
if [ ${timeout} != -1 ]; then
if keystatus; then
if keystatus --shift; then
set timeout=-1
else
set timeout=0
fi
else
if sleep --interruptible 3 ; then
set timeout=0
fi
fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###

=============================== sda1/etc/fstab: ===============================

#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=589131a5-1a10-439d-9d7a-94bfb7531a13 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=176a7556-49c4-4bb4-9cc9-c4d1e89b4261 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda6 /home/michael/Storage-vfat vfat uid=1000,gid=1000,users,rw 0 0

=================== sda1: Location of files loaded by Grub: ===================


4.1GB: boot/grub/core.img
7.3GB: boot/grub/grub.cfg
8.9GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-20-generic
7.6GB: boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic
7.6GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-20-generic
4.5GB: boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic
7.6GB: initrd.img
8.9GB: initrd.img.old
4.5GB: vmlinuz
7.6GB: vmlinuz.old

[darkod]

I don't have experience with EFI partitions, they are rather new. But it seems it can make confusion during boot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_System_partition

Not sure if you are using it or not. Even if you aren't. perhaps that's the confusion during boot.

[hbsmiley7]

Bump. But also I should note that /dev/sda4 is a partition that came standard on the 1000HA that claims to "speed up the boot." It did not cause a problem in 9.10 so I am hesitant to mess with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.