On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:51 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > 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.
OK, if you know it worked with Karmic, can you boot Karmic using a live USB? If that works, you should be able to mount the Lucid partition and get the logs. Bruno -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
