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

[Ronnie Tucker]

You are right, it's a bit of a botch fix, but it seems quite a lot of 
people are getting a black screen and, from what I could gather, it's a 
kernel problem with older machines. Which really isn't good if your 
black screen PC is your only PC!  :(


On 02/05/10 13:15, John Matthews wrote:
> 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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