morrisminiminor
November 25th, 2010, 08:52 PM
I know now I've been a bit silly but if I understood why it might help. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on a PC for my nephew and carried out all the updates. Then I hit a daft streak and decided to upgrade it to 10.10. Everything went OK until I rebooted the PC when all that happened was the LEDs on the monitor started to flash on and off in unison. Booting into a live session had the same result.
Re-install 10.04 would be a sensible option but when I tried to do this and later on 9.10, all I got was 'error: no such device' It does display Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-14-generic and the recovery mode + a memory check option but when I select the default highlighted option that is when I get this error message.
I've also tried to reformat the drive by putting in an XP disc but after installing Ubuntu the result is the same. If ever there was a case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' this is it.
So what do the flashing LEDs mean and how can I fix the broken boot part of the system?
Thanks in advance
Re-install 10.04 would be a sensible option but when I tried to do this and later on 9.10, all I got was 'error: no such device' It does display Ubuntu Linux 2.6.31-14-generic and the recovery mode + a memory check option but when I select the default highlighted option that is when I get this error message.
I've also tried to reformat the drive by putting in an XP disc but after installing Ubuntu the result is the same. If ever there was a case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix it' this is it.
So what do the flashing LEDs mean and how can I fix the broken boot part of the system?
Thanks in advance