If you press e to edit the grub boot entry and change the words quiet and splash to noquiet and nosplash it can help with more output. Also you can press shift+page up to scroll back up to messages that came earlier. Also have you tried waiting a few minutes?
Also can you describe your system? Is it a single disk? Any raid? You mention it also has Windows? Did you do a normal install and set up a partition for Ubuntu or is this a Wubi install from within windows? -- Ubuntu 10.04 won't boot after updates https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668152 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs