[ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

[Bill Cumming]

On 10 June 2010 23:28, John Matthews <jakewc2 at sky.com> wrote:

> On 10/06/10 23:21, Alan Bell wrote:
> > John Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. What I have told is all that
> >> happens. I click on the recover link under the kernal when in the grub,
> >> and it freezes after about 20 secs. Nothing else happens, no script
> >> comes up, no other boxes, I cannot get into a terminal. It just freezes.
> >> That is all that happens. So if something happens again, when I update
> >> to do a partial upgrade, I cant do anything to fix it, as I done have
> >> access to recovery when booting.
> >>
> >> Please excuse me when I ask, what value is there, for me to post about
> >> similar bugs. I just dont understand what that will do to help. I am
> >> just telling you exactly what happens on my pc. Please help me to
> >> understand what that will do to help you, then I will try to find those
> >> similar bugs again.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > As well as you providing helpful information to the developers about how
> > you have reproduced a bug if you can find one that is similar there are
> > often suggestions in the comments of bugs (or answers) which may give me
> > a clue as to what is going on with your problem, and how to fix it, even
> > if they don't sound that helpful to you.
> >
> > So if you just turn on the PC it normally boots straight to the login
> > screen, you only see grub if you hold down shift whilst powering up?
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> >
>
>
> The grub appears as its booting up. It has a list of two kernels with
> recvoery underneath and a few other things, including the xp partition,
> that I tried getting help for months ago, but that didnt get anywhere
> either. I then learnt by accident, that this grub had a bug, which wasnt
> posted about until after I had done the partition, and screwed it up the
> first time, and tried again, giving myself two ubuntu partitions and an
> xp partition, if you added more than two things to a partition it
> screwed up the windows partiition. When I initially did the partition,
> it f******D up my xp, which was just installed by the people who
> repaired my pc. So I can only use Ubuntu on this pc. Screwed there.
>
> The kernels are Ubuntu 2.6.32-22 and .21, Plus a couple of other things
> like I already posted about.
>
> Sorry, I am too tired, been at this for way too long.
>
>
>
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Hi
Have you tried removing *splash" & "quiet" form the recovery boot options?
You might get some extra error messages that may help...

(Press "e" in the grub menu when Recovery line is highlighted)

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Bill Cumming

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