daweefolk
July 15th, 2010, 06:03 AM
I installed minimal ubuntu 9.10.
over about 6 months or so i perfected system. fluxbox, all codecs i needed, games, etc...
last night it just.. stopped working.
during the boot process here's what happens, roughly.
1- shows grub menu
2- Setting preliminary keymap
3- loading AppArmor profiles
4- setting console font and keymap
5- screen goes a dark grey (about as close to black as possible while still being grey)
6- nothing. Well, eventually the screen will go black until i hit a key so it's booted to a certain extent. i think.
**Normally apache, mysql and mpd would load at some point before getting to my login shell. After "setting console font and keymap" it's like a continuous 'clear'**
I never get a shell. absolutely no input is recognized unless it "goes to sleep" and accepts a keystroke to wake it up.
this happened a few days after i did an apt-get to update my system. i booted from a mythbuntu livecd to check my grub's menu.cfg but there are no previous kernels to try booting from.
There has to be a way to fix this from a livecd or something... i've never screwed linux that badly.
however, if ABSOLUTELY necessary i can sudo mount my hdd from a livecd and back everything in my documents to an external and reinstall. I'd rather not though.
EDIT: crap already posted this on ubuntuforums. this post can get deleted, it's already in here somewhere
over about 6 months or so i perfected system. fluxbox, all codecs i needed, games, etc...
last night it just.. stopped working.
during the boot process here's what happens, roughly.
1- shows grub menu
2- Setting preliminary keymap
3- loading AppArmor profiles
4- setting console font and keymap
5- screen goes a dark grey (about as close to black as possible while still being grey)
6- nothing. Well, eventually the screen will go black until i hit a key so it's booted to a certain extent. i think.
**Normally apache, mysql and mpd would load at some point before getting to my login shell. After "setting console font and keymap" it's like a continuous 'clear'**
I never get a shell. absolutely no input is recognized unless it "goes to sleep" and accepts a keystroke to wake it up.
this happened a few days after i did an apt-get to update my system. i booted from a mythbuntu livecd to check my grub's menu.cfg but there are no previous kernels to try booting from.
There has to be a way to fix this from a livecd or something... i've never screwed linux that badly.
however, if ABSOLUTELY necessary i can sudo mount my hdd from a livecd and back everything in my documents to an external and reinstall. I'd rather not though.
EDIT: crap already posted this on ubuntuforums. this post can get deleted, it's already in here somewhere