Locked up in boot process.

[Steven Vollom]

On Sunday 02 August 2009 04:48:49 am Goh Lip wrote:
> Steven Vollom wrote:
> > It looks like I was not successful; what do I do now?
>
> Sorry, should have known you used livecd to kate /boot/grub/menu.lst.
> But, if that is the case you are seeing livecd's menu.lst and it and
> grub should be empty. You can go to livecd and 'see' your partitions,
> right? But let's build on John's idea. All this will be at livecd.
>
>
> Open dolphin, click on the partition (at right hand side of dolphin)
> containing your grub, making sure it is the correct harddisk, (you have
> 2?) click on the root folder (inside dolphin, not the right side), then
> the boot folder, then again the grub folder. Press alt + . to see hidden
> files. just click on menu.lst, (it will open unsavable kate) and check
> if it is empty or there are entries there. If it contains entries, check
> if it correct, ie, contains pci=nomsi etc).

I made a follow up post.  I found an error.  The third kernel entry in 
menu.lst had pci=nomsi on the wrong line.

> If empty or in error, exit
> kate (as it is unsavable) and this time press F4 at dolphin, and at
> command prompt that opens, type kdesudo kate menu.lst, when kate
> appears, amend, and save).
>
I tried to save the amended file, but got an error message:

The document could not be saved, as it was not possible to write to 
/media/disk-3/boot/grub/menu.lst.  Check that you have write access to this 
file or that enough disk space is available.

This is the area to be amended:

## ## End Default Options ##

title		Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic
uuid		cc837f4b-f5d9-419f-a099-541b486f271f
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=cc837f4b-f5d9-419f-
a099-541b486f271f ro quiet splash pci=nomsi
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic
quiet

title		Ubuntu 9.04, kernel 2.6.28-11-generic (recovery mode)
uuid		cc837f4b-f5d9-419f-a099-541b486f271f
kernel		/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-generic root=UUID=cc837f4b-f5d9-419f-
a099-541b486f271f ro  single pci=nomsi
initrd		/boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-11-generic

title		Ubuntu 9.04, memtest86+
uuid		cc837f4b-f5d9-419f-a099-541b486f271f 
kernel		/boot/memtest86+.bin pci=nomsi
quiet

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

In that last entry, 'pci=nomsi' was on the line just above it (on the uuid 
line.  I cut and pasted it on the next line, as you can see, but I could not 
save it because of the mentioned error.

I opened Dolphin in sudo.  I opened the menu.lst by right clicking and gave 
read and write permission to group as well.  I did not click on Executable.  
But I could see no way to make user owner.  What did I do wrong?

Steven

> Reboot without livecd.
>
>
> Note: if entries are not empty and correct (I would think this would be
> case), come back to us and maybe some of us can think of something.
>
> Regards,
> Goh Lip