On 8/30/07, Chris Jones <<a href="mailto:chris.jones@canonical.com">chris.jones@canonical.com</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi STONE COLD wrote: > unfortunately i cant provide the error message as it restarts straight away and i cant take a screen dump! The machine reboots immediately after telling you it can't start X? The error printed in the blue screen is useless anyway, it's just a message telling you that it didn't work. What would be much more useful is a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log after X has failed to start. If you have a USB stick you should be able to mount it manually and copy the log file there.</blockquote><div> You could boot into the recovery mode, which doesn't attempt to start X. I don't think I have ever seen the machine reboot by itself when X fails to start. Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 (or F2 if that doesn't work) when the blue screen is showing, and you should be greeted with a text login prompt. Matthew. PS. Someone once told me that you don't get the grub menu if it is not a dual-boot. How do you get to the recovery mode in this case? </div></div>