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| tombolt wrote: Now it won't even go to recovery mode. Just boots straight up without giving me the option. | |
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I'd help but I only know SUSE I'm afraid
Sorry
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| Author: | tombolt [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:10 am ] |
| Post subject: | Ubuntu blank screen |
Posted this on the ubuntu forums, but thought I might get more help here: Tried to install ubuntu 8 on an old Dell Dimension last year. Wouldn't work and just went to a blank screen after the initial boot process. Installed opensuse, which worked fine, but I don't particularly like it. I decided to try ubuntu again after good experiences with Netbook Remix. Anyway, installed 9.1 and it worked a treat. Until last week when it was updated and now it won't boot. It does all the preliminary bit, then the white circle type symbol, then you get a flashing dash in the top left hand corner, then the screen just goes blank and stays blank. I can get into recovery mode and have tried a few things I've found on the web, but nothing seems to work. |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 2:59 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
in recovery mode try sudo update-manager -d and see if the system will update and repair … |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:38 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
Now it won't even go to recovery mode. Just boots straight up without giving me the option. |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 3:45 pm ] | |||||||||
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I'd help but I only know SUSE I'm afraid Sorry
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| Author: | tombolt [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:06 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
No problem, cheers anyway! |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
looks like a reinstall maybe an option … |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:35 pm ] | |||||||||
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thinking that myself. Not a massive issue as I haven't yet used it for anything, so won't be losing any information. Does have me a bit worried that it'll happen again though, as I hadn't done anything other than install Google Chrome and run the suggested system updates. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:25 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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You can always install the file system and the /home folder onto different partitions to prevent data loss in the event of a re-installation. |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:26 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
Won't even switch on now! |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 4:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
sounds like the system has bigger problems then the installed OS … |
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| Author: | rustybucket [ Tue Feb 16, 2010 5:11 pm ] | |||||||||
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That's what I was thinking but I'm glad someone else said it first. |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Wed Feb 17, 2010 9:21 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Ubuntu blank screen |
Sounds like it doesn't it? Weird for a computer to just stop working. Well not for a PC, I guess. Reinstalled on another machine I had lying around, so it's all okay now. (Although the new machine needs more RAM and a better graphics card.) |
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