On 10 June 2010 23:28, John Matthews <jake...@sky.com> wrote: > On 10/06/10 23:21, Alan Bell wrote: > > John Matthews wrote: > > > >> Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that > >> happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub, > >> and it freezes after about 20 secs. Nothing else happens, no script > >> comes up, no other boxes, I cannot get into a terminal. It just freezes. > >> That is all that happens. So if something happens again, when I update > >> to do a partial upgrade, I cant do anything to fix it, as I done have > >> access to recovery when booting. > >> > >> Please excuse me when I ask, what value is there, for me to post about > >> similar bugs. I just dont understand what that will do to help. I am > >> just telling you exactly what happens on my pc. Please help me to > >> understand what that will do to help you, then I will try to find those > >> similar bugs again. > >> > >> John > >> > >> > >> > > As well as you providing helpful information to the developers about how > > you have reproduced a bug if you can find one that is similar there are > > often suggestions in the comments of bugs (or answers) which may give me > > a clue as to what is going on with your problem, and how to fix it, even > > if they don't sound that helpful to you. > > > > So if you just turn on the PC it normally boots straight to the login > > screen, you only see grub if you hold down shift whilst powering up? > > > > Alan. > > > > > > > The grub appears as its booting up. It has a list of two kernels with > recvoery underneath and a few other things, including the xp partition, > that I tried getting help for months ago, but that didnt get anywhere > either. I then learnt by accident, that this grub had a bug, which wasnt > posted about until after I had done the partition, and screwed it up the > first time, and tried again, giving myself two ubuntu partitions and an > xp partition, if you added more than two things to a partition it > screwed up the windows partiition. When I initially did the partition, > it f******D up my xp, which was just installed by the people who > repaired my pc. So I can only use Ubuntu on this pc. Screwed there. > > The kernels are Ubuntu 2.6.32-22 and .21, Plus a couple of other things > like I already posted about. > > Sorry, I am too tired, been at this for way too long. > > > > -- > Ubuntu User #30817 > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Hi Have you tried removing *splash" & "quiet" form the recovery boot options? You might get some extra error messages that may help... (Press "e" in the grub menu when Recovery line is highlighted) -- Regards Bill Cumming Twitter: @s0l_uk Skype: s0litaire eMail: b...@s0l.co.uk
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