[lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Jack Craig
hi list, after various 12.04, 16.04, and now 16.10, i am getting a consistent failure on reboot after install. if i go bak & reinstall, comes up fine, but reboot after good install so far gives no joy. on reboot, it puts out the fsck, /dev/sda1;clean, 1229900/420024 files 767048/171000 blocks

[lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
> hi list, > > after various 12.04, 16.04, and now 16.10, i am getting a consistent > failure > on reboot after install. if i go bak & reinstall, comes up fine, but > reboot after good install so far gives no joy. > > on reboot, it puts out the fsck, > > /dev/sda1;clean, 1229900/420024 files 76704

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Simon Quigley
Hi Jack, When you boot up, hold your Shift key down to get your GRUB menu. Select: Advanced Options for Ubuntu Select: Ubuntu, with Linux VERSION (recovery mode) When you boot up: Select: root It should bring you to a root console. DISCLAIMER: Be *very* careful as this doesn't have the usual r

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Simon Quigley
To help further diagnose, what you are waiting for is the startup of lightdm. I can't provide any further help from there as I don't know. Good luck! -- Simon Quigley tsimo...@ubuntu.com tsimonq2 on Freenode -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsub

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Jack Craig
this is an asus eeepc 1000. after following the above, running a lot of updates finishing with creating a new initrd.img. i386, intel still same problem, headed back to grub,... On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: > To help further diagnose, what you are waiting for is the sta

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Fritz Hudnut
Jack: Haven't been exactly following the thread, but have you been able to boot a "live" DVD or USB of whatever system that are then trying to install? Or, you are just "installing"?? Usually I test out the system . . . and if you can get to a GUI before installing it, that might be indicative o

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Israel
Hey Jack, if you are booting to a black screen then it is your graphics card (most likely). This is a problem that will require you to research some things but should likely be able to overcome. That said, it might be better to wait for a while before trying this distro... Often in the weeks be

Re: [lubuntu-users] ring any bells?

2016-06-01 Thread Mark Artman
What is the graphics card in your ibook? On Wed, Jun 1, 2016, 16:55 Israel wrote: > Hey Jack, > if you are booting to a black screen then it is your graphics card (most > likely). > This is a problem that will require you to research some things but should > likely be able to overcome. > That sa