lost bootup to desktop

[Kelly L. Fulks]

nepal wrote:
> On Saturday 15 December 2007, Andrew Jarrett wrote:
>>> I had a power cut today while Kubuntu 7.10 was up and
>>> running. When I try to boot the pc, I see the Kubuntu
>>> loading screen with the blue progress bar for a few
>>> seconds then I get a black screen with just a flashing
>>> cursor in the top corner. No x seems to be loaded, I
>>> can do nothing at this point except reboot with
>>> Ctrl+Alt+Del. Ctrl+Alt+BS does nothing. Is my system
>>> screwed or is it possible to get it back up and
>>> running.
>>>
>>> Note I have/had Nvidia drivers installed.
>>>
>>> Can anyone advise please?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>> nepal
>> Try editing GRUB to boot Kubuntu without the splash
>> screen (Turn on comp, highlight Kubuntu, hit 'e' to edit
>> the boot options, and then remove the option that says
>> something about "splash" or replace it with "nosplash").
>>  Now you should be able to see where your comp is hanging
>> during boot.
>>
>> HTH
>>
>> Andrew
> 
> I did that. It stopped the splash screen from being 
> displayed, but I still got no text messages. However, it 
> did get me to see the boot menu and I used the safe boot 
> mode, it ran fsck, I responded to some fixes and now it 
> seems ok again. So you did help, thanks.
> 
> I am happy with Kubuntu, because despite a few problems such 
> as this, every time it had got fixed relatively simply. 
> I've even managed a couple of times using the on-line docs 
> with specific commands to type in.
> 
> Yes, happy user. :)
> 
> nepal.
> 

Just FYI, you have to remove the word quiet as well to see the text
messages during the boot process.  It really doesn't matter since you
are a happy user now, but we have it documented again in the archive
completely by including this tidbit of information.

-- 
Kelly L. Fulks
Home Account
near Huntsville, AL