<div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2010 23:28, John Matthews <<a href="mailto:jakewc2@sky.com">jakewc2@sky.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div><div></div><div class="h5">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. > > </div></div>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. -- Ubuntu User #30817 <div><div></div><div class="h5"> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> 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) -- Regards Bill Cumming Twitter: @s0l_uk Skype: s0litaire eMail: <a href="mailto:bill@s0l.co.uk">bill@s0l.co.uk</a>