[ubuntu-uk] Acer Ferrari One - First Hurdle Failure

[Kris Douglas]

On 30 April 2010 12:31, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:51 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
>> On 30 April 2010 11:48, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
>> >> On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
>> >> >> Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system,
>> >> >> only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card
>> >> >> works on 9.10.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Kris Douglas,
>> >> >
>> >> > Kris,
>> >> >
>> >> > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press
>> >> > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the
>> >> > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without
>> >> > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console.
>> >> > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message.
>> >> >
>> >> > Another thing you can do if you have another computer lying around is
>> >> > enable netconsole[2] so that it sends the full boot log to the other
>> >> > computer.
>> >> >
>> >> > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
>> >> > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole
>> >> >
>> >> > Bruno
>> >> >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Sent from my HTC Hero
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > On Apr 30, 2010 6:45 AM, "Markie" <mark.curtis.1970 at googlemail.com>
>> >> >> > wrote:
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Hi,
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > > Then the machine froze on that  loading screen with the mouse on >
>> >> >> > display, immobile. I couldn't e...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then
>> >> >> > access /var/log to take a look in the logs. The Xorg logs may have
>> >> >> > something, personally I dont understand those logs much myself, but
>> >> >> > someone on here or the ubuntuforums will be able to help.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Also running "sudo lshw" will give useful output on hardware if you
>> >> >> > get to the command line.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > > > I wish I could give you more information, but I honestly can't,
>> >> >> > that > is all that happens. No e...
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Try searching the ubuntu forums for this card if you think its the
>> >> >> > graphics. Can you try booting and running from a Live CD? How does
>> >> >> > that work?
>> >>
>> >> Hello, I don't have a bootable CDROM, but I have tried a live USB
>> >> boot, and It doesn't work, literally exactly the same problem of the
>> >> repeating bootup music.
>> >
>> > Did you try to boot after removing 'quiet splash' to see if you had any
>> > meaningful error message? Here are the details of how to do that:
>> >
>> > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press
>> > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the
>> > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without
>> > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console.
>> > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message.
>>
>> Yes sorry, that was the only thing I got when using quietboot, doesn't
>> seem to have any errors. I don't have another machine at my disposal
>> to use to do the network log dump.
>
> OK, if you know it worked with Karmic, can you boot Karmic using a live
> USB? If that works, you should be able to mount the Lucid partition and
> get the logs.
>
> Bruno
>

I shall try that when I get home.

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