On 30 April 2010 11:48, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: >> On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: >> >> Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system, >> >> only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card >> >> works on 9.10. >> >> >> >> Kris Douglas, >> > >> > Kris, >> > >> > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press >> > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the >> > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without >> > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console. >> > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message. >> > >> > Another thing you can do if you have another computer lying around is >> > enable netconsole[2] so that it sends the full boot log to the other >> > computer. >> > >> > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 >> > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole >> > >> > Bruno >> > >> >> >> >> Sent from my HTC Hero >> >> >> >> > On Apr 30, 2010 6:45 AM, "Markie" <[email protected]> >> >> > wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Hi, >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > Then the machine froze on that loading screen with the mouse on > >> >> > display, immobile. I couldn't e... >> >> > >> >> > Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then >> >> > access /var/log to take a look in the logs. The Xorg logs may have >> >> > something, personally I dont understand those logs much myself, but >> >> > someone on here or the ubuntuforums will be able to help. >> >> > >> >> > Also running "sudo lshw" will give useful output on hardware if you >> >> > get to the command line. >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > > > I wish I could give you more information, but I honestly can't, >> >> > that > is all that happens. No e... >> >> > >> >> > >> >> > Try searching the ubuntu forums for this card if you think its the >> >> > graphics. Can you try booting and running from a Live CD? How does >> >> > that work? >> >> Hello, I don't have a bootable CDROM, but I have tried a live USB >> boot, and It doesn't work, literally exactly the same problem of the >> repeating bootup music. > > Did you try to boot after removing 'quiet splash' to see if you had any > meaningful error message? Here are the details of how to do that: > > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console. > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message.
Yes sorry, that was the only thing I got when using quietboot, doesn't seem to have any errors. I don't have another machine at my disposal to use to do the network log dump. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting, Design and Server Administration, Technical Support & Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
