[ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely

[John Matthews]

I have done that. It seems to be a bit of a way out really, it doesnt 
get rid of the problem, and its gone back to a previous kernel. I tried 
updating from there, and it didnt work.

John

On 02/05/10 12:33, Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> I had a similar problem with my laptop when I upgraded to Lucid. It
> would boot past GRUB, reach the screen with the Ubuntu logo then the
> screen would go black and it would just sit there doing nothing.
>
> What I did (after much Googling) was to hold down SHIFT as soon as I
> turned the machine on, it'll then show the GRUB boot menu. From there
> you can choose a kinda safe mode and what-not. But mine still had the
> previous kernel in the list of possible choices, so I booted with that
> previous kernel option, and it worked.
>
> Now I'll need to install startupmanager to make that option the default
> option in GRUB.
>
> Good luck!
>    


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