r_avital
May 29th, 2012, 03:49 PM
Hello all,
Here's the situation:
One PC was happily running Lucid (10.04 LTS) AMD64 for years. The only video connection is the good-old plain-vanilla VGA. On this PC under Lucid, I was always able to start grub by holding down the left Shift key during boot. Never a problem.
Upgraded straight from Lucid to Precise (12.04 LTS) AMD64, from DVD I burned from official Desktop ISO. Installed all updates immediately after installation. All flawless. Ubuntu runs happily, I installed the gnome-fallback stuff so I'm in gnome classic (irrelevant to the grub problem, just giving full details). Also installed and ran the boot-repair utility successfully, just in case.
Booting up normally, I first get message from my monitor, "dsub - no connection" or words to that effect. Then after a few seconds, I get the pretty login page, everything is cool.
Trying to boot into grub. Hold down left Shift key, I see the message "GRUB Starting" - and the screen goes blank again. And eventually I get the login page, and can log in.
But I can NEVER run Grub???? What on Earth did the developers do here in the name of fancy innovation? Why was this working flawlessly with the SAME hardware before the upgrade to Precise?
NOTE: This is not a dual boot. There is absolutely nothing on this PC other than Precise Pangolin amd64. Lucid was completely removed with installation of Precise.
Please, please help with this.
Thanks in advance
Here's the situation:
One PC was happily running Lucid (10.04 LTS) AMD64 for years. The only video connection is the good-old plain-vanilla VGA. On this PC under Lucid, I was always able to start grub by holding down the left Shift key during boot. Never a problem.
Upgraded straight from Lucid to Precise (12.04 LTS) AMD64, from DVD I burned from official Desktop ISO. Installed all updates immediately after installation. All flawless. Ubuntu runs happily, I installed the gnome-fallback stuff so I'm in gnome classic (irrelevant to the grub problem, just giving full details). Also installed and ran the boot-repair utility successfully, just in case.
Booting up normally, I first get message from my monitor, "dsub - no connection" or words to that effect. Then after a few seconds, I get the pretty login page, everything is cool.
Trying to boot into grub. Hold down left Shift key, I see the message "GRUB Starting" - and the screen goes blank again. And eventually I get the login page, and can log in.
But I can NEVER run Grub???? What on Earth did the developers do here in the name of fancy innovation? Why was this working flawlessly with the SAME hardware before the upgrade to Precise?
NOTE: This is not a dual boot. There is absolutely nothing on this PC other than Precise Pangolin amd64. Lucid was completely removed with installation of Precise.
Please, please help with this.
Thanks in advance