Have you tried, after booting into recovery mode, sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade reboot, if that doesn't work, boot into recovery mode and reinstall grub? (grub-install /dev/sd*X )*
On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 11:01 AM Dick Steffens <d...@dicksteffens.com> wrote: > On 1/29/20 10:06 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > My laptop, Lenovo X200 Tablet, has Xubuntu 18.04 installed. Yesterday > > there was an update (upgrade?) which I allowed to run. When finished > > it required a reboot. Upon rebooting, after the GRUB screen that > > allows me to choose which version to boot, I see some disk activity, > > but nothing else. Grub tells me I'm trying to boot Ubuntu, with Linux > > 5.3.0-28-generic. I can boot into recovery mode. I fussed around > > there, ran some update it wanted, and continued on to resume booting. > > I was warned about something not being a normal boot, and if things > > weren't right I should just do a normal reboot. (Words to that > > effect.) I did a normal reboot, but the original problem remains. > > > > I tried having GRUB boot the previous kernel(?), Linux > > 5.3.0-26-generic, and have the same problem, a blank screen, a bunch > > of disk activity, and then nothing. Pushing the power button to force > > a shutdown works, and I briefly seen the Xubuntu splash screen before > > power down. > > There are two other GRUB options after 5.3.0-26. 5.0.0-37 boots > normally. 4.18.0-25 also boots normally. They both have the "System > program problem detected" box after things settle down. > > I don't know if that sheds any light on the subject. > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
