On 10 June 2010 22:39, Jim Price <[email protected]> wrote: > John Matthews wrote: > > Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. > > Post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > The difference between the default boot line (which works, yes?) and the > recovery line should only be the options at the end of the lines which > specify the linux kernel and options. If you post the contents of the > file, we can see what they are. The other details should be identical in > a working setup, and what they point to must work if you can boot > normally, so I'm guessing something is wrong in grub.cfg, otherwise you > would get an error message or something other than a blank screen. > > You can test this out by replacing the "quiet splash" at the end of the > boot option which works with "single" (quotes are only to indicate where > the content is and are not part of what you should type). To do that you > select the normal boot option and press the E key to edit it when you > see the grub boot menu (the one where you have previously tried to > select the recovery mode option). If you can change "quiet splash" to > "single" and boot into recovery mode, then at least you can do whatever > it is you want to do when you need recovery mode, and we have at least > one clue as to what your problem might be. Report anything which you see > in detail when trying this. It should be an entirely safe test, with no > risk of damage to a system which can boot from the default entry. > > -- > JimP > > > > Ok, I cant sleep, and have found that file you wanted,
http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/66604 Hope that helps. John
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