On 9 August 2016 at 13:22, David Goldsbrough <da...@boavon.plus.com> wrote:
> So, I bit the bullet and upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04 on an old desktop as > a pre cursor to upgrading my Lenovo T60 laptop - my sturdy workhorse for > now. One day I will get round to buying a 64bit machine. > > Any way, all went smoothly - no real problems. I was glad that the > upgrade retained all my settings especially my extra large mouse cursor as > I have Low Vision - in fact the upgrade improved matters making my large > cursor visible outside of FireFox where it only seemed to work under 14.04. > > To the point, when I boot now I no longer see the "Ubuntu" message in the > centre of the screen with the changing coloured dots underneath. No big > issue, but it was one of those reassuring things when booting up. I can > live without it, but should it be doing this? Do I need to tweak something > to re-instate it? > I have successfully resurrected this in the past by adding the kernel boot parameter nomodeset You can try this at boot time by pressing E on the GRUB menu, and adding it to the end of the boot line. If it works, you can add it to /etc/GRUB/defaults. Maybe connected, I don't know, but on boot I see the remains I guess of an > fsck output flash up a few times. It says something like > /dev/sda5: clean, xxxxx/xxxxxxx files, xxxxxx/xxxxxxxx > and then it proceeds to boot. Doesn't take long - hence the reason why > cannot see the exact numbers and jot down quickly enough. Again, I guess > its no big issue - the time to worry maybe would be if the output was > different. Again, do I need to do something to prevent this? (/dev/sda5 > is the boot partition for ubuntu - Vista is on 2 other partitions and I > think sda3 and sda4 are allocated to two DVD drives in the machine) > I get that too. I've decided to leave it. I find it reassuring. If you're curious, you can add a file called ``forcefsk'' to the root directory of your root filesystem and force a filesystem check. Then you'll see the results. The file should be automatically removed after the check is run. The easiest way to do this is with the command: sudo touch /forcefsck -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
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