On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas 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.
Did you try to boot after removing 'quiet splash' to see if you had any meaningful error message? Here are the details of how to do that: 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. [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
