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[Liam Proven]

2009/7/23 Derek Broughton <derek at pointerstop.ca>:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>
>> 2009/7/23 Terry Ehrhart <tehrhart at kc.rr.com>:
>>> I just installed Ubuntu 9.04 for about the 5th time and I always get the
>>> same results.
>>>
>>> The system loads and then goes to a terminal and says "No resume image
>>> found .
>>>
>>> Where do I go from here?
>>>
>>
>> Ubuntu hibernates to the swap partition. When it boots, it checks the
>> swap partition to see if there's a saved image in there which it can
>> load and restart.
>>
>> On your PC, it's not getting past that point.
>
> I'm not sure we know that.  With the default boot options (particularly,
> "quiet"), the console says "No resume image found", or does find one and
> says where it's booting from, and then has a long period of silence.

Good point.

>  I'm
> fairly certain that's all you'll see if it gets all the way to the X
> startup, and times out

Doesn't the splash screen over-write the message, though? So it's not
even getting as far as that?

>.  So the first thing to do is to boot from the
> "recovery" or "single user" grub option, and see what we see.  If it gets as
> far as popping up the menu of recovery options, first try "resume normal
> boot" (or something like that - it's the first option).  Likely, you'll see
> essentially the same problem as now, but with more messages beforehand.
> Then get back to us.

Good advice.

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