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at system start after 26 boots system shows 1st spalsh then hangs forever

Asked by dachey

I am running ubuntu 7.10. I am runnig a dual boot with vista. Ubuntu is on a 500 gb sata and vista is on a 40gb ide. My system ran great untill the new run of updates started aprox 1 1/2 to 2 months ago. My system runs untill it has reached 25 boot cycles then on the next boot only the first boot screen ( with the logo and bar) is shown then the cursor goes to the upper left corner of a black screen and hangs. I have left it in that position for up to an hour. CTL-ALT-DEL has no effect nor does Control-D. The system must be powered off and rebooted into recovery mode. Fsck will then run and resume until it has booted 25 times then repeat of the above.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

The system may be trying to perform the cyclic hard disk check and there is a message that you don't see.
Please remove the splash and quiet boot parameters to see more informative messages.
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How to get more messages at Ubuntu startup

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Search the row

# defoptions=........ your options

and remove the "quiet" and "splash" parameter

save and exit

then type:

sudo update-grub

Reboot your pc and you will get more warning and messages at startup so you can investigate your slow boot issue.

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You can get even more messages by edit the /etc/default/rcS file

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo gedit /etc/default/rcS

and change the row

VERBOSE=no

to

VERBOSE=yes

Hope this helps

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dachey (dachey) said : 		#2

Thanks marcobra, that solved my question.