[Chester LUG] Ubuntu boot problem

[Les Pritchard]

Yes by all means bring it along. Hopefully between us we can sort it out.
On 11 Dec 2014 18:02, "Dave Hicks" <d.hicks87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It doesn't....no sign of HDD activity either! Yeah I do have a spinning
> disk, was tempted by SSD but not this time. I was actually wondering about
> bringing it tonight to see if anyone could make head or tail of it!
>
> Dave
>
> On 11 December 2014 at 16:21, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> That is a strange one, does it sound like anything is loading in the
>> background when the screen goes blank? That's assuming you have a spinning
>> disk in there...just realised that SSDs are ruining that check now!!
>>
>> On 11 December 2014 at 09:49, Dave Hicks <d.hicks87 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> Really sorry I haven't been in touch for ages or attended any of the
>>> meets for a few months. I finally have a dedicated linux box now to have a
>>> play with. I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a laptop, but it has a strange issue
>>> whereby if I restart it or on the first cold boot, it gets past the BIOS
>>> screen but then the screen goes blank.
>>>
>>> If I hard power off and power on I then get GRUB and it boots into the
>>> OS without any issues - have I missed something here or is something amiss?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
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