Morning all, On 11/03/2008, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The error messages that you get before being dropped in to the shell > would help us to diagnose the problem and try and fix it. Can you > transcribe at least the last few lines in to an email? > I'm not getting any error messages, as far as I can tell. If I choose a 'normal' kernal in Grub, I just get a black screen. Selecting a recovery mode takes me to a root recovery shell. When typing 'exit' into the shell (a command which would normally continue the boot process in my experience) I get the same black screen.
> Also, it may be a kernel issue, do you have other kernels still > available in the grub menu? I do have other kernels, but have the same problems with all. Rob Beard Wrote: >Does it get as far as the login screen? It didn't... (see below for updated progress) >I had a bit of an issue with an ATI video card on Ubuntu 7.10 where it >tried to put the monitor in a resolution that wasn't supported by my >monitor. It a laptop with integrated Intel card. >Just a thought too, you could always try re-configuring X with the command: >X -configure Update- I had tried to sort with dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg from the recovery console (not heard of x-configure before) so I reverted to a backup of xorg.conf from before upgrading. I can now get to GDM. It also seems it was not mounting my /home partition on boot, so I have now editing /etc/fstab by hand from UUID=blahblah back to 'the way it used to be back in the day' i.e. /dev/sda2. /home now gets mounted. However, once I get to grub, the touchpad (or USB mouse if plugged in) doesn't respond, and after typing in my user name and password, nothing happens after the boxes are greyed out. I think I've junked it, but would still like to try to downgrade if it is possible. Things are backed up, and /home is on a separate partition anyway. Help still appreciated, -- Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
