Hi Jake Thanks for your direction I'm very new to Linux so I am unsure how to do what you have suggested...if you have Skype I would appreciate a chat so I can work on it live....please let me know.
Yours in Wellness Johannes Nielsen CEO BAMedia Wellness Marketing and Event Management ABN 32 710 132 20 bammeb...@gmail.com + 61 (0) 449 065 729 (Vodafone Cell Phone) ICQ 70972773 Skype fuzzy8561 Excellence in Service Provision http://bikedaddybike.blogspot.com/ On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 10:51, Jake Anderson <ya...@vapourforge.com> wrote: > edit the line its trying to boot, > go down to kernel (i think) and remove quiet and splash from the end of > that line > then boot > it'll let you see what's going on at least. > > > On 26/02/11 00:05, John Nielsen wrote: > >> Hi All >> Good to see so many faces at the meeting tonight I am running Karmic Koala >> and I went to boot up tonight after the meeting and it >> s coming up to the GNU GRUB Menu with a choice of Ubuntu's to boot into >> and >> when I boot into any of the non recovery ones it goes to the splash screen >> and hangs. >> >> Suggestions on how to get it to boot please >> >> Yours in Wellness >> Johannes Nielsen CEO >> BAMedia >> Wellness Marketing and Event Management >> >> ABN 32 710 132 20 >> bammeb...@gmail.com >> >> <%2B%2061%20%20%280%29%20449%20065%20729>+ 61 (0) 449 065 729 (Vodafone >> Cell Phone) >> >> ICQ 70972773 >> Skype fuzzy8561 >> >> Excellence in Service Provision >> >> http://bikedaddybike.blogspot.com/ >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 22:44, david<da...@kenpro.com.au> wrote: >> >> one of my servers has developed a habit of dying (3rd time in 3 weeks). >>> I'm >>> guessing hardware - memory?? something else?? This box has been running >>> for >>> a couple of years. >>> >>> Symptoms are different each time, and each time there is nothing obvious >>> in >>> the log, but this was a photo of the death screen last time: >>> >>> http://david.kenpro.com.au/david/kernelpanic_110216.jpg >>> >>> The previous freeze had the screen rolling too fast to read, so I assume >>> some sort of loop?? >>> >>> I didn't record the problem the first time it happened, but I recall it >>> was >>> a static screen with error messages. >>> >>> Each time the server dies the last log message before restart is a DHCP >>> request, which may mean nothing at all. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (in the >>> process of upgrading but it hasn't happened yet). >>> >>> Hard reboot gets it up again. >>> >>> thanks.. >>> >>> David. >>> -- >>> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >>> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >>> >>> > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html