[Nottingham] Ubuntu not booting.

[Aritra Dalal]

I dont understand, do you go through a grub screen to begin with?

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On 21 May 2010 22:34, Benjamin Crowe <sneblot at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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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