nimdil
May 6th, 2012, 08:21 PM
Hello!
The situation is as follows. My fiance owns a HP laptop - around 4 years old. Recently she decided to click yes when it asked her to upgrade to version 12.04.
And she is currently 300+kms away.
The previous version was - I believe - 11.10.
So after the installation the laptop rebooted and nothing happened. Black screen etc.
She mentioned that in recovery mode the effect was pretty much the same, though this time there was some output before the black screen with nothing. The last information she spotted was apparently "failed to create pty" which is rather weird.
I called her, we navigated through GRUB and here is what I was able to remotely determine:
The
"initrd /boot/initrd.img-...-generic" line disappeared.
The
"linux /boot/vmlinuz-..." line referred to a vmlinuz version without corresponding "initrd.img-..." file in the /boot folder. We tried following combinations:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.?-?-generic ... (I don't recall the specific version atm)
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-17-generic (latest found in /boot folder)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-17-generic ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-17-generic
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-11-generic
in the place of ... there are all original parameters passed to a kernel.
No effect for each.
Any suggestions? Or should she just download the latest Ubuntu 12.04 ISO and reinstall (in theory the simplest/fastest combination as she also has a desktop for her disposal)?
Also - what possibly could be a reason for disappearance of "initrd ..." line? This is confirmed issue as she sent ma photo of a screen :) The line disappeared also from previous ubuntu versions option in GRUB.
The hardware should be able to handle Ubuntu 12.04 - it is Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GhZ, 3 GB memory. If for some reason GPU is relevant it is X3100 integrated.
The situation is as follows. My fiance owns a HP laptop - around 4 years old. Recently she decided to click yes when it asked her to upgrade to version 12.04.
And she is currently 300+kms away.
The previous version was - I believe - 11.10.
So after the installation the laptop rebooted and nothing happened. Black screen etc.
She mentioned that in recovery mode the effect was pretty much the same, though this time there was some output before the black screen with nothing. The last information she spotted was apparently "failed to create pty" which is rather weird.
I called her, we navigated through GRUB and here is what I was able to remotely determine:
The
"initrd /boot/initrd.img-...-generic" line disappeared.
The
"linux /boot/vmlinuz-..." line referred to a vmlinuz version without corresponding "initrd.img-..." file in the /boot folder. We tried following combinations:
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.2.?-?-generic ... (I don't recall the specific version atm)
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-17-generic (latest found in /boot folder)
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-17-generic ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-17-generic
linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic ...
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.38-11-generic
in the place of ... there are all original parameters passed to a kernel.
No effect for each.
Any suggestions? Or should she just download the latest Ubuntu 12.04 ISO and reinstall (in theory the simplest/fastest combination as she also has a desktop for her disposal)?
Also - what possibly could be a reason for disappearance of "initrd ..." line? This is confirmed issue as she sent ma photo of a screen :) The line disappeared also from previous ubuntu versions option in GRUB.
The hardware should be able to handle Ubuntu 12.04 - it is Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GhZ, 3 GB memory. If for some reason GPU is relevant it is X3100 integrated.