[Nottingham] Ubuntu not booting.

[Benjamin Crowe]

Hi TJ thanks for the reply I am currently running a Geforce 8800GT graphics
card. I will attempt to reinstall and work through your suggestions.

Thanks for your help.


On 21 May 2010 20:30, TJ <linux at tjworld.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2010-05-21 at 17:51 +0100, Benjamin Crowe wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have just recently tried to install Ubuntu on my desktop I have
> > tried both 10.04 and 9.04 but they both will not boot past a screen
> > with a flashing cursor after what is supposedly a sucsseful install.
> > My desktop specs are thus intel quad core, 4Gb memory, 250Gb HDD(which
> > I install Ubuntu on) and a seperate 500Gb HDD for documents.
>
> It could be an issue whereby GRUB is installed to one hard disk, but is
> trying to boot another. There are some issues around multi-disk
> scenarios that can cause this.
>
> It'd be helpful if you could try accessing the GRUB menu at boot-time,
> as soon as the BIOS has POSTed. Hold down the shift key and GRUB
> should/will show the boot menu.
>
> Choose the 'Recovery' variation of the most recent (highest versioned)
> kernel. That will start in single-user mode and should not put up the
> plymouth spash screen - you should see kernel messages as the system
> boots.
>
> If you don't see those, then I'd point at a GRUB issue. If you do, then
> there is start-up issue that needs more investigation.
>
> What graphics chip-set is installed? There are some issues with the
> kernel mode-setting and DRM drivers.
>
> When you see the flashing cursor, you could try switching VT. Press
> Ctrl_Alt+F1 to get to tty1. If you see a log-in prompt, then that gives
> us a further clue.
>
> I'm an Ubuntu developer; if I can help you, email me.
>
> TJ.
>
>
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