A Carafe of Ubuntu
I upgraded to Oneiric in November and after some trouble, got my video card working perfectly. Today, for some reason, my computer suddenly stopped booting to the desktop. Now it goes the BIOS screen and then goes to a dark purple background, which it usually shows for a few seconds before displaying the splash screen, but now it just stays on that blank screen with the dark purple background. I have the NVIDIA GeForce 7025 onboard video. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
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In grub, can you press 'e' to go to the edit mode?
There you should delete the words "quiet splash" and try to boot.
Now you will see a bunch of text instead of a splash screen. Can you tell us where it hangs?
EDIT: If you don't see any error message or so, you can take a picture of the screen, check that the text is readable, and upload it here.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
While you are presented with Grub screen, press keyboard button 'e'. You'll be presented with the lines code of Grub. Find the term 'quiet splash' in it. Replace those with 'nomodeset' and try to log in. If the issue persists, please provide us with error message or screen shot as suggested by 'sanderd17'.
A Carafe of Ubuntu
My computer never goes to the grub menu. I think it's set that way by default, right? I can get to a console with Ctrl+Alt+F1. How can I get the grub to show up using that?
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Oh, so your computer completely boots, but you just don't get gdm.Originally Posted by Crimson_Tider
changing grub things won't help with that (as far as I see).
maybe try from the tty to do
and see what you get.Code:sudo rc.d restart gdm
A Carafe of Ubuntu
Code:sudo: rc.d: command not found
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