damog88
May 1st, 2013, 03:19 PM
Hi everyone,
I've got installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64bits) in my laptop. I usually install updates from the update manager without taking so much care, and it never gave any problem.
The thing is that it's been a little while since I don't update, and last Sunday I decided it was the right time to go with it. It all went ok, just like normal, but I was suprised when, after the system told me to reboot, that full reboot never came to happen. In the GRUB I selected the Ubuntu OS as I always did, but after this, the screen went dead (all black, as it was turned off, not even the brownish colour typical of Ubuntu "black screens"). I left it like that for an hour or so, hoping it finished the reboot, but when I saw it was doing nothing, I had to poweroff by force (reboot button).
And, since then, until now, when I try to boot into Ubuntu, I get fails (sometimes it doesn't boot, sometimes it does, but it takes a lot of time (before updating it was almost "instantaneously" boot), sometimes I get a blinking prompt and it stays there forever, sometimes after the prompt the system boots, and the last few times I tried to boot, it did nothing at all (after selecting OS, dead screen).
The only way I have to boot into the OS is selecting the "Recovery mode". But I want to get it to its prior state, or, if not, somehow fix it, because I have to work with this system, and, although I also have Windows working on the same laptop, I have to use Linux...besides I got used to it and I like it.
Does anyone know the possible solution??
Thank you very much!!
I've got installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64bits) in my laptop. I usually install updates from the update manager without taking so much care, and it never gave any problem.
The thing is that it's been a little while since I don't update, and last Sunday I decided it was the right time to go with it. It all went ok, just like normal, but I was suprised when, after the system told me to reboot, that full reboot never came to happen. In the GRUB I selected the Ubuntu OS as I always did, but after this, the screen went dead (all black, as it was turned off, not even the brownish colour typical of Ubuntu "black screens"). I left it like that for an hour or so, hoping it finished the reboot, but when I saw it was doing nothing, I had to poweroff by force (reboot button).
And, since then, until now, when I try to boot into Ubuntu, I get fails (sometimes it doesn't boot, sometimes it does, but it takes a lot of time (before updating it was almost "instantaneously" boot), sometimes I get a blinking prompt and it stays there forever, sometimes after the prompt the system boots, and the last few times I tried to boot, it did nothing at all (after selecting OS, dead screen).
The only way I have to boot into the OS is selecting the "Recovery mode". But I want to get it to its prior state, or, if not, somehow fix it, because I have to work with this system, and, although I also have Windows working on the same laptop, I have to use Linux...besides I got used to it and I like it.
Does anyone know the possible solution??
Thank you very much!!