[ubuntu-uk] getting my Jaunty working again....

[Philip Stubbs]

2009/4/22 Sean Miller <sean at seanmiller.net>:
> So the release date is only a matter of hours away and now, having
> been reprimanded for having a beta version and moaning it wasn't
> working, I am planning to hopefully get Jaunty working again over the
> weekend.
>
> The symptoms are that it gets to the login prompt on X and then just
> hangs entirely.  I also haven't managed to get it to boot into
> recovery mode either to look at logs etc., so I think there's
> something a bit fundamental gone wrong.

I would edit the grub line to remove the splash screen and set it to
recovery mode, and watch the messages scroll up. The last message
before it stalls should give a hint as to where it is failing.

-- 
Philip Stubbs