cyrilmethodius
August 30th, 2011, 05:02 PM
I see various posts about black screen startup but I'm thinking its because of my initial install mistake that I caused mine so just needing some advice.
Alright, so I did something stupid I think. I had an old AMD machine that had 32-bit 10.04 Ubuntu on it. It was incredibly slow so I got the idea of installing Xubuntu 11.04 – and of course thought I may as well upgrade to 64-bit at the same time. So, I burned the 64-bit xubuntu 11.04 image to a DVD and popped it in the old machine and rebooted.
When asked if I wanted to install alongside, replace, or update the old Ubuntu, I selected update. After it started going, I noticed a message about it deleting the files that were different and I realized it was probably keeping some of the old 32-bit files…but it was too late. After the update was complete, and I let it restart, it came up with a black screen. So, I tried again and this time chose replace – and on the restart after install is complete, I still get a black screen. Well, the black screen is actually a mostly black screen with a thin bluish line at the top like it is attempting and failing to draw the background.
Shouldn’t the remove/replace install have done a disk format to make sure it was starting clean? So I don’t think I should need to get in and do a format from the terminal. But I’m not sure how to recover now from this problem I created. Any suggestions?
Do you think it is related to my initial install of 64 upgrade of a 32 ubuntu or is the installer smart enough to correct my mistake? Just wondering if its something I did or if it is possibly related to other blackscreen issues in the forum.
Alright, so I did something stupid I think. I had an old AMD machine that had 32-bit 10.04 Ubuntu on it. It was incredibly slow so I got the idea of installing Xubuntu 11.04 – and of course thought I may as well upgrade to 64-bit at the same time. So, I burned the 64-bit xubuntu 11.04 image to a DVD and popped it in the old machine and rebooted.
When asked if I wanted to install alongside, replace, or update the old Ubuntu, I selected update. After it started going, I noticed a message about it deleting the files that were different and I realized it was probably keeping some of the old 32-bit files…but it was too late. After the update was complete, and I let it restart, it came up with a black screen. So, I tried again and this time chose replace – and on the restart after install is complete, I still get a black screen. Well, the black screen is actually a mostly black screen with a thin bluish line at the top like it is attempting and failing to draw the background.
Shouldn’t the remove/replace install have done a disk format to make sure it was starting clean? So I don’t think I should need to get in and do a format from the terminal. But I’m not sure how to recover now from this problem I created. Any suggestions?
Do you think it is related to my initial install of 64 upgrade of a 32 ubuntu or is the installer smart enough to correct my mistake? Just wondering if its something I did or if it is possibly related to other blackscreen issues in the forum.