[Ubuntu-SG] My ubuntu crashed out on me, pls help.

[Chow Loong Jin]

On Tuesday 18,August,2009 09:23 PM, ttq8280 at yahoo.com.sg wrote:
> [...]
> A couple of days later,  a pop-up Update Manager came on and told me that
> updates were available for my version. I clicked update and was told to type
> my password. It was a longish download due to my slow internet server. Upon
> downloading and subsequent installation, my version of ubuntu was upgraded to
> 'jaunty 9.04' (or similar - forget the version).
> 
> Ubuntu Jaunty  was fine except that booting up was always exasperating for
> me as it took more than 3 restarts, sometimes more, before the pc could be
> booted up.  OK, I'm not complaining 'cause this is a free os and I should be
> grateful to you guys at ubuntu for doing such great jobs providing free os
> software to the world.  I salute you.
Three restarts eh? Sounds very strange. I've never seen anything of that
sort. What happens during the failed restarts? Does it auto-restart, or
does it stall with the keyboard lights blinking, or anything? What about
any error messages?
> 
> Last Sunday, as usual I required a few restarts to boot up the pc.  While
> listening to a song on youtube, I swiched to another window to surf. The
> music stopped playing and the pc hanged. I waited for about 15 minutes to see
> if the pc could return to life. But after being certain that nothing would
> happen , I restarted the pc. It could not be booted up.
> 
> I attempted to boot up the pc for the last two days and it seemed that I
> needed help. The screen showed the following when I start the machine -
> 
> "Boot from (hd0,0) ext 3
> 
> 62e85596-d866-42d1-9106-0ae7921af82b
> 
> Starting up ...
> 
> crc error
> 
> -- system halted --?
> 
> Please help, thanks.
> 
Sounds to me like your hard disk gave up on you, or something went wrong
in the upgrade from Intrepid to Jaunty.

To confirm, try booting Ubuntu without the "quiet" and "splash"
arguments to the kernel:
1. When entering the boot loader screen, press escape to enter the menu.
2. Press e (to edit the kernel command line)
3. Delete the "quiet" and "splash" words
4. Press b (to boot).

This time Ubuntu should boot up without the splash screen and pretty
progress bar (at least up to the point where the error occurs). Please
copy down or take a clear picture of the last few lines where it halts.

Also, do your keyboard lights (Num, Caps, Scroll locks) flash?

-- 
Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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