[AuckLUG] Trouble booting ubuntu 6.06

[Daniel Pittman]

"Mastercho" <mastercho at orcon.net.nz> writes:

> been reading the list and what not for a while now. 1st posting..

[...]

> screen output before the reboot is as follows
>
> Booting  'Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-26-server
>
> root  (hd0,0)
>   Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
>  kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-server root=/dev/hda1 ro quiet splash
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x16c98f]
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-26-server
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x794e000, 0x6a1478 bytes]
> savedefault
> boot
>
> then it proceeds to reboot. post, load the above and repeat.

Somewhere past that, presumably, it is reporting the error that causes
the reboot.  The 'quiet' and 'splash' options may be hiding that,
though.

Can you try the "recovery mode" option and let us know what the display
before the reboot is?  That way we can do more to diagnose it.

Regards,
        Daniel
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