Hi Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. I am
guessing Grub is not loading or working? Can someone give me some
help. As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
Doug
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07-08-2010, 12:54 PM
Karl Larsen
Net book upgrade problem
On 07/08/2010 06:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> Hi Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. I am
> guessing Grub is not loading or working? Can someone give me some
> help. As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
> Doug
>
>
We need more info. Please look in the directory /boot/grub/ and see
if you have a file named menu.lst or one called grub.cfg. You might have
both.
73 Karl
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07-08-2010, 02:10 PM
Tarun Khanna
Net book upgrade problem
Can you drop into a command prompt? I had a similar problem when I upgraded to 10.04 fro 9.10. I did 'dpkg-reconfigure -a'. That solved the problem.
If other help doesn't work, this is something worth trying.
Tarun
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1@verizon.net> wrote:
Hi *Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. *I am
guessing Grub is not loading or working? *Can someone give me some
help. *As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Doug
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07-08-2010, 03:43 PM
Douglas Pollard
Net book upgrade problem
On 07/08/2010 08:54 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 06:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
>> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. I am
>> guessing Grub is not loading or working? Can someone give me some
>> help. As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
>> Doug
>>
>>
>>
> We need more info. Please look in the directory /boot/grub/ and see
> if you have a file named menu.lst or one called grub.cfg. You might have
> both.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>
>
how do I get into a directory with ubuntu?? Doug
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07-08-2010, 06:49 PM
Tarun Khanna
Net book upgrade problem
does any of the pseudo terminal work? <alt>+<ctrl>+<F1>, <alt>+<ctrl>+<F2> ...
If the ssh daemon has come up, you can perhaps ssh from another machine. Use putty on Windows.
Tarun
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:43 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1@verizon.net> wrote:
On 07/08/2010 08:54 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 06:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>
>> Hi *Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
>> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. *I am
>> guessing Grub is not loading or working? *Can someone give me some
>> help. *As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
> * * * We need more info. Please look in the directory /boot/grub/ and see
> if you have a file named menu.lst or one called grub.cfg. You might have
> both.
>
> 73 Karl
>
>
>
>
how do I get into a directory with ubuntu?? * * * * Doug
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07-08-2010, 08:21 PM
Douglas Pollard
Net book upgrade problem
On 07/08/2010 11:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 08:54 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>
>> On 07/08/2010 06:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
>>> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. I am
>>> guessing Grub is not loading or working? Can someone give me some
>>> help. As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
>>> Doug
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> We need more info. Please look in the directory /boot/grub/ and see
>> if you have a file named menu.lst or one called grub.cfg. You might have
>> both.
>>
>> 73 Karl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
> how do I get into a directory with ubuntu?? Doug
>
>
Sorry guys what I meant to ask was How do I get into a directory ?boot
/ grub/ If I can' open ubuntu. Doug
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07-08-2010, 08:29 PM
Karl Larsen
Net book upgrade problem
On 07/08/2010 02:21 PM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
> On 07/08/2010 11:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>
>> On 07/08/2010 08:54 AM, Karl Larsen wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 07/08/2010 06:43 AM, Douglas Pollard wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
>>>> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. I am
>>>> guessing Grub is not loading or working? Can someone give me some
>>>> help. As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
>>>> Doug
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> We need more info. Please look in the directory /boot/grub/ and see
>>> if you have a file named menu.lst or one called grub.cfg. You might have
>>> both.
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> how do I get into a directory with ubuntu?? Doug
>>
>>
>>
> Sorry guys what I meant to ask was How do I get into a directory ?boot
> / grub/ If I can' open ubuntu. Doug
>
>
You can't. The Ubuntu must be working, Can you stop a bootup where
you can see what grub has to boot?
73 Karl
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07-08-2010, 11:35 PM
Pete Vander Giessen
Net book upgrade problem
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Douglas Pollard <dougpol1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Hi *Guys, I upgraded My wife's Dell net book from 8.04 t0 10.04 from a
> download and am getting nothing but a black screen on start up. *I am
> guessing Grub is not loading or working? *Can someone give me some
> help. *As you might guess I am not real popular around my house. :-)
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Doug
Hi Doug,
If grub is toast, you can fix it using a live cd (or usb stick, in the
netbook's case). This link should get you started:
It might also be an issue with the display drivers, which can get more
complex. But your description -- that you get a blank screen pretty
much as soon as you turn it on, is more indicative of a grub problem.
~PeteVG
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commonplace by the time Newton used it, his one contribution being to
erase any sense that he himself might be a dwarf."
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