[Newark] Diagnosing problems at boot

[Chris Hayes]

Also, in the meantime - to get a usable Linux system. When you boot your
machine up, straight after the BIOS screen, you should get a bootloader menu
asking you what you'd like to boot into (i.e. Ubuntu, Windows, Solaris -
etc, depending what you have installed). There should be several Ubuntus
listed there, each with different kernel numbers.

For instance, you might see something like: (if you're only running Ubuntu)
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-19-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 8.04.1, memtest86+

Just choose to boot one of the earlier kernels, in this case it'd be
2.6.22-14.

If you don't see that menu when you boot up, you may need to press the Esc
key just after the BIOS screen.


Chris Hayes


On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Steve Caddy <steve.m.caddy at ntlworld.com>wrote:

> This one is mainly for Bob, who was asking about USB problems at boot after
> a
> kernel upgrade.
>
> I'm not sure if this email list accepts attachments or not, but it's worth
> giving this a go (if it doesn't work, we'll try something else):
>
> You need to dump your last set of boot messages to a text file, using this
> command line:
>
> cd ; dmesg > dmesg.txt
>
> This performs 3 operations... first it sets the current directory to be
> your
> home directory (just in case it wasn't anyway), then it retrieves the boot
> messages using dmesg, and then it redirects the output to a file called
> dmesg.txt. You should then be able to find the resulting dmesg.txt file in
> your home area, and attach it to an email to this list.
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
>
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