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Monitor goes into power save mode while I try to reinstall Ubuntu 10.04 from flash drive. Please assist.

Asked by Mubuntu

I reset the boot sequence in the bios to boot first from the USB port as I want to re-install Ubuntu 10.04 from a flash drive. Previously I used Ubuntu 9.10 and recently upgraded to 10.04 when prompted to do so by Ubuntu. However, I have had recurring problems when trying to boot the machine. Five boot options (two in safe mode0 were stated after I interrupted the boot sequence by pressing the ESC key. Sometimes the monitor shuts down. Sometimes other users cannot gain access to their profiles loaded on the PC. Please help. Thanks.

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Best Tom (tom6) said : 		#1

Hi :)

Are you able to boot up using the flash-drive into a LiveUsb session?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCD

Do you have access to another machine which can read/write to the flash-drive and also has access to the internet? If not then we can always try something else but i think htis would be the easiest way to reinstall grub2
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#Reinstalling%20from%20LiveCD
If we could get the output of

sudo fdisk -l

then we might be able to guide you more precisely
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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Mubuntu (marc-philander) said : 		#2

Hi Tom
Thanks for the advice. What worked in the end, was for me to update to grub2. After doing this, there were no more boot errors. Thanks again.
Regards,
Marc

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Tom (tom6) said : 		#3

Hi :)

Congrats for finding that & nicely fixed :))
Congrats and regards from
Tom :)