Young impatient newbie

[pgar23]

when i use the arrow keys to navigate up to kernel nothing happens. no response from keyboard or monitor. and also how do i highlight the ubuntu title?

[pgar23]

nevermind last reply. i figured out what the grub menu is. ok. so i hit "e". i selected kernel. and i entered <space>(btw is this justa space or do I enter "<space>") single at end of line. hit enter. hit "b". then still stall at starting hotplug subsystem.

[devils casper]

Select Recover Mode and hit Enter key.

how do i highlight the ubuntu title?

Move up/down arrow keys to select ( highlight ) first Ubuntu entry in the list.

Edit :
As I mentioned earlier, Re-install will be the easiest fix but if you want to fix this problem without re-installing, Select Recovery mode in GRUB Menu. It will drop you at command line prompt. Execute this

cat /etc/fstab
fdisk -l

Post output here.

[pgar23]

ok. i did that. i hit e, selected kernel, hit e again, now what exactly do i enter here? is it "< >single" or "<space>single" or " single"? i am lost at this point. and even when i enter all of the above. problem still occurs. it still stall at strating hotplug subsystem.

[devils casper]

Hit Spacebar and type single.

[pgar23]

ok. no that doesnt work. but now I have keyboard failure for some reason. in the recovery mode. how do i get the command line prompt? should it show by itself?

[pgar23]

after re-installing UBUNTU i still receive same problem.

[pgar23]

ok. so i took out my graphics card (btw it was plugged into pci slot, dell motherboard graphics card had horrible resolution so i replaced it with a pci ATI Radeon VE/7000). UBUNTU boots properly once removing graphics card. I have a question tho. Once UBUNTU boots, is there a code I can enter that will allow me to put my graphics card back into pci slot and boot ubuntu even with new graphics card installed? also I read on other forums something about changing the irq? any relation or should i just leave that as is?

Thanks for help.