[SOLVED] Edubuntu boot to nothingness

[KaIIen]

I have installed Edubuntu 9.10 Karmic on a Dell Optiplex GX260. 1.8Ghz with 1gb RAM. Dual boot with XP Home. XP boots and runs fine. Edubuntu on the other hand keeps freezing during boot. After the GRUB, the white Ubuntu logo comes on for a few seconds. Then it just goes to a black screen, no HDD noise or anything else. I did a fresh re-install, and it worked fine for the first few boots. I let it update, an the only packages I installed were Ubuntu restricted and Gstreamer. I had originally thought the old floppy drive was causing this because when t froze, the floppy light would be lit (and stayed lit), so I thought that the drive was bad and causing something not to load correctly. I have sense removed the floppy, and the next boot worked fine. Now it's back to not booting...

[devils casper]

Which Graphics Card do you have? Is Ubuntu booting up in Single User Mode?

[KaIIen]

Right now I am using the onboard video. It's identified as Intel 845G series. I don't think it's a video issue tho, as sometimes it will load but only after I try to boot several times. Once the white Ubuntu logo disappears, the HDD stops working, so at that point it just isn't doing anything.... As for Single user mode, not sure what you are asking. If you mean do i have multiple user accounts, no. It has one user and is setup to autologin.

[devils casper]

Single User mode is a Command Line Mode. When screen goes blank, press Alt+Ctrl+F3 after a while and check if it switch to Command Line.

Doesn't GRUB Menu give an option to boot up in Single User/Recovery Mode?

[KaIIen]

Single User mode is a Command Line Mode. When screen goes blank, press Alt+Ctrl+F3 after a while and check if it switch to Command Line.

Doesn't GRUB Menu give an option to boot up in Single User/Recovery Mode?

Oh ok. When the screen goes blank, Ctrl+Alt+F3 does nothing.
The GRUB menu does have a revory option, but does not list it as "Single user", so I didn't know that...

If I choose recovery, I get the options to Resume, Clean, dpkg, Grub, netroot, root

[hatebreed]

do you have another system to try the hard drive in and see if the drive boots in it? this would tell you if there is an underlying problem with the install or just something with your system in general. you could boot to a command prompt by typing

single

at the end of your kernel string

[KaIIen]

do you have another system to try the hard drive in and see if the drive boots in it? this would tell you if there is an underlying problem with the install or just something with your system in general. you could boot to a command prompt by typing

single

at the end of your kernel string

Not at the moment, no. And if a drive/system error wouldn't it effect Windows as well?

[hatebreed]

No. windows and linux are way different in the way they react to hardware. I wasn't implying that you had a hardware failure but rather something that linux wasn't doing correctly to cause the freeze. Does your live cd still work in the system? and if so you could boot to the livecd and check your log files on the hard drive to see what it's stopping on.

[KaIIen]

No. windows and linux are way different in the way they react to hardware. I wasn't implying that you had a hardware failure but rather something that linux wasn't doing correctly to cause the freeze. Does your live cd still work in the system? and if so you could boot to the livecd and check your log files on the hard drive to see what it's stopping on.

LiveCD works fine. What logs/where do I need to look?

[hatebreed]

check this link out.

Linux log files location and how do I view logs files?