John Matthews wrote: > Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. Post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg
The difference between the default boot line (which works, yes?) and the recovery line should only be the options at the end of the lines which specify the linux kernel and options. If you post the contents of the file, we can see what they are. The other details should be identical in a working setup, and what they point to must work if you can boot normally, so I'm guessing something is wrong in grub.cfg, otherwise you would get an error message or something other than a blank screen. You can test this out by replacing the "quiet splash" at the end of the boot option which works with "single" (quotes are only to indicate where the content is and are not part of what you should type). To do that you select the normal boot option and press the E key to edit it when you see the grub boot menu (the one where you have previously tried to select the recovery mode option). If you can change "quiet splash" to "single" and boot into recovery mode, then at least you can do whatever it is you want to do when you need recovery mode, and we have at least one clue as to what your problem might be. Report anything which you see in detail when trying this. It should be an entirely safe test, with no risk of damage to a system which can boot from the default entry. -- JimP -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
