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Ubuntu wont boot up
« on: December 08, 2011, 12:02:27 pm »
SYSTEM INFO:
Windows XP pro and Ubuntu 11.10 dual boot
nVidia Graphics card
emachines T2482


OK, so today, i boot up my computer and i get the grub 2 boot menu as usual. I select Ubuntu and i get a black screen with a white cursor blinking in the corner. So i booted up my LiveCD and searched for the problem on the internet. I found that since I have nVidia graphics card, I can edit the boot script line that says:

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splash quiet quiet splash

(idk if that was the exact code, but it was similar)

and replaced it with:

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nomodeset

It showed text now and got hung up at:

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Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom ... done

Does anyone know whats going on? (it was working for a few days before this happened)
« Last Edit: December 08, 2011, 03:45:55 pm by flyingfisch »
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2011, 03:09:16 pm »
First of all, does it stay like that if you wait a bit?
It *can* be that its just busy checking your harddisk for errors, so that takes a little while.

Also, editing the file while not help right away, you need to use update-grub after that. But this isn't so easy when you are on the live-cd.
If it doesn't boot after some time, try if you can boot with the recovery option. Just notify us when its that far.
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2011, 03:27:48 pm »
I can boot with the recovery option. Here is the thread i made at ubuntuforums.org: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1892645

No one has replied to it. It has all my error codes though.
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2011, 03:31:08 pm »
If you press ctrl-alt-f2 while it shows those messages, does it drop you to a shell?
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2011, 03:33:08 pm »
No it does not. I have rebooted twice and tried and it still wont drop me to shell. Like i said in the post, ctrl+alt+del doesn't force reboot either
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2011, 03:34:23 pm »
Very very strange.
What happens if you go to recovery, wait for the menu and choose continue?
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #6 on: December 08, 2011, 03:37:48 pm »
continue? all i see is:
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Recovery  Menu (limited read-only menu)

resume     Resume normal boot
fsck         Check all file systems (will exit read-only mode)
remount    Remount / read/write and mount all other file systems
root         Drop to root shell prompt

<Ok>                        <Cancel>
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #7 on: December 08, 2011, 03:38:39 pm »
"Resume" is what I mean :)
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #8 on: December 08, 2011, 03:40:55 pm »
I get a blinking white cursor in the corner of my screen
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Re: GRUB 2 boot problems?
« Reply #9 on: December 08, 2011, 03:43:07 pm »
why not reinstall grub?
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Re: Ubuntu wont boot up
« Reply #10 on: December 08, 2011, 04:10:18 pm »
Happbob: I did reinstall grub.

I renamed xorg.conf to xorg.conf.bak

Right now its displaying 3 NAK bailout messages. I'm gonna let it sit there for a while while i eat dinner.
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Re: Ubuntu wont boot up
« Reply #11 on: December 08, 2011, 05:09:10 pm »
OK, i turned it off [the computer] cuz it seems to be frozen again. :/

It seems like it might be a kernel problem.

What i want to do now is reinstall ubuntu but keep things such as personal settings. Does anyone know how to go about this?
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Re: Ubuntu wont boot up
« Reply #12 on: December 08, 2011, 05:12:51 pm »
Boot on a live CD and move files over?
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Re: Ubuntu wont boot up
« Reply #13 on: December 08, 2011, 05:14:09 pm »
how would i go about that? could you help me via irc?
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Re: Ubuntu wont boot up
« Reply #14 on: December 08, 2011, 05:16:09 pm »
Sure, when I'll get home. I'm at school right now and I'm supposed to work.
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