[HLUG] Bootable CD with SSH access

[Alex Mace]

I'll give it a try, but I'm not confident it'll make any difference.  
The unsupported video message comes up as soon as I turn the computer  
on - even during POST and bootup, hence my thinking that it's the  
video card/port that is broken rather than it being OS related.

Alex

On 5 Nov 2008, at 23:14, Andrew Hodgson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Have you tried downloading an 8.10 ISO and booting into recovery mode?
> I have used the recovery in Ubuntu, and it gives you several options  
> to
> get yourself out of a mess.  Obviously, if video isn't working in the
> BIOS then this won't help either.
>
> FWIW I upgraded to 8.10 server the other day using the
> do-release-upgrade scripts, I have nothing much on the server apart  
> from
> a test Postfix/Spamassassin/Amavis setup which I am doing some
> development work with, and a working Apache/PHP/Wordpress/Subversion
> setup.
>
> Andrew.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Alex  
> Mace
> Sent: 05 November 2008 22:23
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: [HLUG] Bootable CD with SSH access
>
> Hello all,
>
> I upgraded my home server to Ubuntu 8.10 last week but ever since then
> it hasn't been booting to the point where I can access it over SSH. I
> can ping it but not get into it. I connected it up to 2 different
> monitors today and they both said "Unsupported video mode". I think
> something is broken in the video card somewhere. Anyway, does anyone
> know of a bootable linux CD that will bring up SSH? Then at least I
> can access some of the info...
>
> Alex
>
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