Ubuntu Intrepid NOT BOOTING!

[trenticles]

Hey Guys,
Very frustrated at the moment. I am running Ubuntu Intrepid on a pentium 4, 3.0ghz machine and it wont boot. My computer was running fine and dandy until I turned my computer off at the button instead of going to shutdown in the menu and now it wont boot.
What happens is I get the menu that lets me choose which kernal and after trying every one it doesnt work! even in recovering mode. After choosing a kernal it does something then after about 30seconds it goes "input signal out of range" from which I hold ctrl+alt+F1 and that loads the terminal. I type in my username and password and nothing happens, just takes me to the next line.

How do I fix this?

Help is GREATLY appreciated!

[bigtomrodney]

It sounds like you have a terminal working, as returning to the next line is standard terminal behaviour. Try running the following command. Enter your password when prompted, remembering it will not show up on screen

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

If that doesn't bring up a working screen, rename the existing xorg.conf to allow it to be set up again. Run the following commands

sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.lfo_backup
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

[trenticles]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately I keep getting error codes when I did a restart. So now I am actually re-formatting my harddrives with 'DBAN' and intend to do a complete re-install on Ubuntu. Would you recommend downloading 9.01 or whatever its called? or sticking with Ubuntu Intrepid?