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Computer doesn't fully boot after 10.04

Asked by Michelle Walker

I loaded 10.4 onto a hard drive and replaced it in my computer (long story). Now the computer boots up, the Dell screen comes on, then the screen that has the computer specs and then it does nothing else. What now!?? HELP ME.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#1

Do you have dual boot ?
Do you see:
   Grub menu (menu with different OS or boot option)
   the "five dots" screen
What do you call "computer specs" ?.

Could you boot on Ubuntu CD, choose "Try but don't install" and type command
     parted -l
where "-l" is lowercase "-L", and post result

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#2

By accessing to your bios settings... please
- verify the boot device order
- verify the parameter of your hard disk if they are not auto detect...

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Bob Walker (bwalker99) said : 		#3

You might have the infamous 'Blank Screen at Startup' problem.
See:
http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen

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Michelle Walker (milore55) said : 		#4

Bob,

Sorry BOB, I forgot...I couldn't install Ubuntu...the CD had an error on it.
So I installed XP so I could get back online to download and burn another
Live CD. Sorry, I've been back and forth with this thing so much, I get
mixed up.

Background...I could't boot from my cd drive so I switched hard drives with
another computer to load Ubuntu. Everything was fine until a certain
point...It couldn't fully load...I had to reburn the Live CD. But by then
the install had wiped out the XP OS. So I had to reinstall XP so I could get
online again.

So the problem is not Ubuntu...it must be XP. I still have a problem tho and
I'm not sure what to do. Not sure if this forum can help me. This
'situation' trying to get Ubuntu installed, etc, has been going on for
weeks!

A BIG sigh

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Bob Walker <
<email address hidden>> wrote:

> Your question #125277 on grub2 in ubuntu changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/125277
>
> Bob Walker posted a new comment:
> You might have the infamous 'Blank Screen at Startup' problem.
> See:
>
> http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2010/05/06/ubuntu-10-04-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup-workaround
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/BlankScreen
>
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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

If you hold shift at boot, select recovery mode, then scroll down and select root. You can now run:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg

Then reboot, may help

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