Booting up with Ubuntu 12.04

[Montana68]

I turn on my desktop computer and get the following



MB Fast Track Kite Version 2.00.1122
American Mega Trends A6380VMS V5.1 052402 CMOS/ GPNV
AMDAN Athelon (tm) Processor, 1100MHZ

Scanning IDE Drives
No Array is defined

ESC to Continue Booting
CTRL F1 to Enter Fast Build Utility

Then I get the following

Dell Setup F11 Boot Menu F2 to load default values and continue

(C) American Megatrends Inc.
62-0524-009999-00101111-040201-VIA_K7-1AARK204-

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 I have 3G RAM as for any other system information I don't have any as it is a self built system and is old.
When I press any F buttons I don't get a response of any kind.
Thank you for your help in advance.
Montana

[yancek]

Is this an installed Ubuntu 12.04? Or are you using a CD/DVD/flash drive? If it is installed, did it ever boot successfully? Do you have a Linux Live CD you could use to gather information or are you unable to boot a CD? Anything significant change just before the problem?

[Montana68]

This is an installed Ubuntu 12.04 that was upgraded from 10.04. It was working but now I can't get it to work at all. I did get it to boot up to 12.04. A box came up and I said no and it seems like since I said no it has this problem.
I can't boot form anything. I just get the screen that have shown above.
Thank you.
Montana

[Montana68]

I just found floppy disks that have DOS 6.22 on them, I also have a DOS boot able disk.
I was thinking that I could use DOS to partition the hard drive if possible, I don't have anything on the hard drive that I have to save so this would not be a problem. The thing is though that I don't know the commands necessary to do this. If anyone knows the command to partition the HD and what I should do to use DOS that would be very helpful as I don't know how to use DOS.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Montana

[yancek]

I did get it to boot up to 12.04. A box came up and I said no and it seems like since I said no it has this problem.

What did the box say/ask? Update to 12.10? Doubt if that would cause the problems you are seeing. It looks like you are not getting out of the BIOS.
The microsoft site below would be a good starting point. Scroll down to How To Partition and Format a Hard Disk since you already have the floppy;

How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk