Locked up in boot process.

[Steven Vollom]

On Saturday 01 August 2009 02:02:28 pm Frans Ketelaars wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:43:04 +0000, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > On Saturday 01 August 2009 01:23:13 pm Jonas Norlander wrote:
> >> Or you can edit the grub boot line direct in the grub boot menu. Press
> >> e on the line you want to edit and add what ever option you want to
> >> try. It want survive the next reboot but it's faster to try out things,
> >> later you can add them in menu.lst.
> >>
> >> / Jonas
> >
> > I haven't ever done anything like that and wouldn't know what to edit or
> > change or what to change it to.  Can you advise me what to do?  Thanks!
> >
> > Steven
>
> OK, try this (tested on Ubuntu 8.04):
>
> 1. Boot your computer and wait till the list of kernels comes up.
> 2. press 'e'

Dear Frans,

My computer is quad 64bit AMD.  I never have gotten a list of kernels.  I 
don't even get a repair mode or safe mode.  I am also running Jaunty kde 4.2.2

If it is in my machine, how do I find it?  thanks.

> 3. With the up and down arrow keys select the line beginning with 'kernel'
> 4. press 'e'
> 5. press the spacebar and then type your boot parameter: pci=nomsi

My memory isn't perfect, but I recall including the pci=nomsi comment using 
Kate under the kernel entries.  I thought the address was something like 
/boot/grub/??, but I can not find a grub folder in Boot.  It should be in the 
instructions though.  I remember doing it.

When I open boot, I get only the following files:

abi-2.6.28-11-generic
config-2.6.28-11-generic
memtest86+.bin
System.map-w.6.28-11-generic
vmcoreinfo-2.6.28-11-generic

Steven


> 6. press 'Esc'
> 6. press 'b'
>
> This is also explained on screen.
>
> Let the list know how it goes :-)
>
>     -Frans