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i can not boot ubuntu

Asked by misty

Ubuntu installation from LiveCD went well. Dual boot XP/Ubuntu - hard drive partitioned successfully. Menu to choose operating system appears. XP boots successfully. Ubuntu hangs in normal boot mode but loads fine in recovery mode. Possible solutions point to GRUB, MBR - confusing.

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misty (londonjd) said : 		#1

More info:
At the end of the normal Ubuntu bootup sequence the following happens
* A cursor appears that I can move around with my mouse
* A tan screen comes up, but then disappears and gives way to a blank (dark) screen; mouse cursor remains and is responsive to mouse movements

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Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#2

I'm almost sure that you have a video card problem.
Can you tell me what Ubuntu are you using and some details about your equipment (motherboard, video card, etc).

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misty (londonjd) said : 		#3

Here's the information you asked for. Thanks for all your help; hopefully this leads to a solution.

My computer:
Dell Dimension 2350 purchased 8/06
Running Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Version 2002 SP3
Celeron CPU 2.2GHz 256 MB RAM
Display Adapter Intel 82845G/GL/GE/PE/GV Graphics Controller
ACPI Uniprocessor model 07W080

Ubuntu:
Ubuntu 8.10, Kernel 2.6.27-7-generic running on 22GB partition (30%)

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Koen (koen-beek) said : 		#4

A bug exists for this Display Adapter - using the vesa adapter or removing compiz and compiz-core might help

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/281132
https://bugs.launchpad.net/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/259385

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Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#5

Ok. there is an issue with your video card model and Ubuntu 8.10, but there is a solution to your problem:
Start in "recovery mode" and at the blue screen choose Root to enter as superuser.
Then, you need a Internet connection, at the console type:
 dhclient
and press <Enter>
After that, you must type:
 apt-get update
and press <Enter>
when the command finish the upgrade, restart the system typing:
 reboot -n
And let the system start as normal.
Hope this help, let me know if you don't have an Internet connection.

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Best Ariel Cabral (acabral1961) said : 		#6

sorry, the command is:
 apt-get upgrade
Hope this help, let me know.

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misty (londonjd) said : 		#7

Thanks. It works. Scary moment when a blue screen came up "Configuring console setup - Encoding the console" with thirty choices - ended up choosing the highlighted choice UTF-8. We are loving Ubuntu - It works faster than XP with all its turtuous security - Loved the help too - Thanks!!

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misty (londonjd) said : 		#8

Thanks Ariel Cabral, that solved my question.