Yes Ralph, you are correct as I got confirmation from Conniccal today that it is not a grub problem and that in fact it is the 3.16.0.36 kernel that is not compatible with grub 2 beta~ which they bounced on us recently.
As I said I just deleted all 3.16 kernels off my system using MC (Midnight Commander ) in the Terminal and my prob was solved. I just used an earlier kernel which was still in the grub menu and updated the grub menu and my laptop boots up fine at an alarming screaming speed. Cheers! garpea On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 22:19 +0000, Ralf wrote: > It is a kernel issue. > If you start the system from the sub menu with kernel 3.16.0.34 system will > boot into login screen. > Using kernel 3.16.0.36 will cause a system hang on bootup at the point > > ... Installing initial ramdisk > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1450905 Title: Why is my laptop not booting up after a major 112M update yesterday? Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Running Dell Inspiron with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS only. After a major 112MB update yesterday, laptop will not boot up properly. I have to manually power it down and reboot it to get to use a previous recovery mode. Is their some way to correct this issue? To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1450905/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
