tanndo
August 2nd, 2010, 10:57 AM
Hi,
Had XP dual boot with ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
Decided to upgrade to 10.04 "in place" over the
internet.
All seemed ok but now after the grub menu, screen is all wavy / fuzzy / flickering, like "white noise" on an untuned telly.
So much so that I can't even see the login box to login.
Googled and tried a few things: I still seem to be on grub 1 and I editied the kernel line with e to remove "quiet splash". Tried replacing
with :
nomodeset
i915.modeset=1
i915.modeset=0
xforcevesa
before pressing return and doing b to boot.
Tried all 4 above one at a time and made no differnce: display /screen is still unreadable so can't login. Tried recovery option but made no difference.
Think I have the G33/G31 onboard video (gigabyte mobo).
Tried booting from my 8.04 CD (try ubuntu) and this still works
fine. Can still use grub to boot into XP also.
Please help as I'm running out of things to try !
Cheers
T
Had XP dual boot with ubuntu 8.04 LTS.
Decided to upgrade to 10.04 "in place" over the
internet.
All seemed ok but now after the grub menu, screen is all wavy / fuzzy / flickering, like "white noise" on an untuned telly.
So much so that I can't even see the login box to login.
Googled and tried a few things: I still seem to be on grub 1 and I editied the kernel line with e to remove "quiet splash". Tried replacing
with :
nomodeset
i915.modeset=1
i915.modeset=0
xforcevesa
before pressing return and doing b to boot.
Tried all 4 above one at a time and made no differnce: display /screen is still unreadable so can't login. Tried recovery option but made no difference.
Think I have the G33/G31 onboard video (gigabyte mobo).
Tried booting from my 8.04 CD (try ubuntu) and this still works
fine. Can still use grub to boot into XP also.
Please help as I'm running out of things to try !
Cheers
T