Blank Screen at startup in 10.04 LTS upgrade--Sort of solved

[JCMB1]

Tried that:

Anyway, I try to get into grub using the terminal with these results:

michael@michael-laptop:~$ sudo edit /etc/default/grub
[sudo] password for michael:
Warning: unknown mime-type for "/etc/default/grub" -- using "application/octet-stream"
Error: no "edit" mailcap rules found for type "application/octet-stream"
michael@michael-laptop:~$ sudo gedit /etc/dfault/grub

no file showed up (that's pretty much copied from what happened).

Any other suggestions?????

[davidmohammed]

please type in EXACTLY as posted - i.e. sudo nano /etc/default/grub
NOT sudo edit /etc/default/grub

[JCMB1]

OK, starting with using e to edit the latest kernel and

add one of the following options immediately preceding "quiet splash --"

nomodeset
i915.modeset=1
i915.modeset=0

then press CTRL+X to boot.

resulted in a screen with small "ubuntu" logos at the top and a frozen computer. The only way the computer would restart one time was to unplug it.

The one exception was i915.modeset=1

sudo nano /etc/default/grub produced something I could edit and I added it to come up with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="i915.modeset=1"

And it works fine now.

Thank you.