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[Derek Broughton]

Liam Proven wrote:

> 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?

Assuming he has a splash screen, you're right.  It's possible not to have 
one, but I'm not sure it's possible not to have one without knowing you've 
removed it :-)

-- 
derek