Dead

[Raymond House]

If I hold shift when booting it seems to start up but it then shuts down.
On Apr 26, 2016 5:41 PM, "Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre" <mathieu.tl at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 5:35 PM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all, I installed Ubuntu 16.04 from a live CD on my laptop and now I
>> can't boot up.I can hear the fan going into high speed but that,s all, no
>> display.I have to force it off.How can I restore the laptop? Thank you.
>>
>
> Can you see the grub menu if you hold Shift while booting? That could let
> you boot all the way up to a recovery console.
>
> Do you see the boot splash in general?
>
> If you see the bootsplash, is all that is missing a login prompt, and if
> so, were you running Ubuntu-GNOME? gdm is known to be broken in a
> non-obvious way at the moment.
>
> If you can't boot even in recovery, sounds like a kernel problem, in which
> case the grub menu might allow you to boot to a previous kernel.
>
>
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