I have had similar difficulties with 12.04 LTS Recovery mode; Check all disks appeared to work but reported nothing, but at least it did not hang more than 60 secs.
Safe mode low-res hangs but Ctrl+c gives a black screen followed by the Unity GUI login screen in Hi-res. Drop to Root terminal requests a Root Password, which has not been set, and will not accept the normal user login/sudo password. The alternative requested, 'Ctrl+d' returned to the recovery menu making the use of this boot option pointless and unproductive. May 8th 2012. bogan Alan Pfeil. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/996454 Title: Recovery Mode starts in read-only, does not mount home folder, and hangs when trying to do something To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/996454/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
