<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'DejaVu Sans Mono'; font-size:9pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Sat March 20 2010 4:28:36 pm Goh Lip wrote: > at grub menu, boot 2.6.28-18 without the splash (delete out 'splash' at linux line) Worked like a charm this time, but need to make sure it does not happen again so need to do a few more reboots. Also if Alvin's diagnosis is right then I need to find a way to delete the /tmp every time I shut-down On Sat March 20 2010 1:17:26 pm Alvin wrote: > Normally, (K)Ubuntu should erase /tmp at boot, but it doesn't. > There are all kinds of things wrong with the Karmic startup, and I don't know > it this problem applies to Jaunty as well. I agree with him, I had upgraded to Karmic twice but then downgraded because of all the start-up issues if this were fixed, I'd have no problems migrating. Hope Lucid does a beter job </body></html>