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

[Jim Price]

John Matthews wrote:
> Ok, I dont know what else I can tell you. 

Post the contents of /boot/grub/grub.cfg

The difference between the default boot line (which works, yes?) and the 
recovery line should only be the options at the end of the lines which 
specify the linux kernel and options. If you post the contents of the 
file, we can see what they are. The other details should be identical in 
a working setup, and what they point to must work if you can boot 
normally, so I'm guessing something is wrong in grub.cfg, otherwise you 
would get an error message or something other than a blank screen.

You can test this out by replacing the "quiet splash" at the end of the 
boot option which works with "single" (quotes are only to indicate where 
the content is and are not part of what you should type). To do that you 
select the normal boot option and press the E key to edit it when you 
see the grub boot menu (the one where you have previously tried to 
select the recovery mode option). If you can change "quiet splash" to 
"single" and boot into recovery mode, then at least you can do whatever 
it is you want to do when you need recovery mode, and we have at least 
one clue as to what your problem might be. Report anything which you see 
in detail when trying this. It should be an entirely safe test, with no 
risk of damage to a system which can boot from the default entry.

-- 
JimP