On 30 April 2010 11:43, Kris Douglas <krisdoug...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin <brunogi...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: >>> Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system, >>> only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card >>> works on 9.10. >>> >>> Kris Douglas, >> >> Kris, >> >> When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press >> 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the >> penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without >> the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console. >> Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message. >> >> Another thing you can do if you have another computer lying around is >> enable netconsole[2] so that it sends the full boot log to the other >> computer. >> >> [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 >> [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole >> >> Bruno >> >>> >>> Sent from my HTC Hero >>> >>> > On Apr 30, 2010 6:45 AM, "Markie" <mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com> >>> > wrote: >>> > >>> > Hi, >>> > >>> > >>> > > Then the machine froze on that loading screen with the mouse on > >>> > display, immobile. I couldn't e... >>> > >>> > Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then >>> > access /var/log to take a look in the logs. The Xorg logs may have >>> > something, personally I dont understand those logs much myself, but >>> > someone on here or the ubuntuforums will be able to help. >>> > >>> > Also running "sudo lshw" will give useful output on hardware if you >>> > get to the command line. >>> > >>> > >>> > > > I wish I could give you more information, but I honestly can't, >>> > that > is all that happens. No e... >>> > >>> > >>> > Try searching the ubuntu forums for this card if you think its the >>> > graphics. Can you try booting and running from a Live CD? How does >>> > that work? > > Hello, I don't have a bootable CDROM, but I have tried a live USB > boot, and It doesn't work, literally exactly the same problem of the > repeating bootup music.
One thing i do get is an error saying "fail: unreadahead-other main process (644)" i think, it flashes very quickly before the gui starts and it crashes. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting, Design and Server Administration, Technical Support & Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
