[nzlug] Ubuntu bootup problem - any suggestions

[Nevyn]

Hi Jubal,

What sort of video card have you got? There was a problem not too long
ago with ATI video cards. Not sure if it's been fixed but the interim
solution was to turn off the splash screen when booting.

In other words, press esc to get into the grub menu. Hit 'e' to edit.
Find the line that starts with kernel, hit 'e' again and delete the
word splash from the end. Once you're in you should be able to edit
/boot/grub/menu.lst to fix this if this has turned out to be the
problem.

On 6/9/07, Jubal John <jubal at metahelp.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> My ubuntu is playing up after working well for a while now, and would
> appreciate help diagnosing the problem.
>
> The problem is that unbutu bootup freezes without any on screen errors. Goes
> past grub fine, and happens early on in the graphical bootup. Here is a
> screenshot of the onscreen output when I try run it in recovery/single user
> mode, with additional options of noapic, acpi=off
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=34763&d=1181350705
>
> my grub line is otherwise:
> root (hd2,0)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.20-15-386 root=/dev/sdb1 ro single
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.20.15-386
>
> I am using a core2duo 6600 with Asus p5n32 SLI SE MB, latest firmware. 2G of
> RAM. /boot (ext) partition is on ide drive, and the root partition is on a
> SATA driver (ext3)
>
> the only recent change that i can remember making to the system was changing
> UUID device name to /dev/sdb1 for root as it wasnt working with UUID number.
> And im pretty sure it was working fine after i changed it to /dev/sdb1
>
> any thoughts?
>
> cheers
> Jubal
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