8.10 will not load recovery options from grub

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Leonard Chatagnier <lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
> wrote:

>
> --- On Thu, 10/22/09, Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Gary Kirkpatrick <pegngary at gmail.com>
> > Subject: 8.10 will not load recovery options from grub
> > To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <
> ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> > Date: Thursday, October 22, 2009, 6:25 AM
> > I am using 8.10 on my Dell Mini 10.   When
> > the system boots (dual with 9.10) I can select the recovery
> > option, which is then gives you a menu so you can fix broken
> > packages, etc.   When I select  broken packages the
> > computer goes through a large number of steps then gives me
> > a root promt.  Computer will not return me to that menu.
> > How do I fix that problem or get around it?
> >
> May be a grub2 issue.  I had a similar, not exactly, issue yesterday on
> 9.1. The fixit menu came up but I couldn't scroll thru it without the screen
> corrupting with messages that normally appear on the konsole screen
> preceeded or followed by the keyboard locking up.  The only out was to
> reboot. After many reboots, I was able to scroll thru the fixit menu only
> once, selected fsck, the screen blinked quickly going to the VT then screen
> corruption again. Never could get anything to run satisfactorily or find
> xfix.  I'm wondering if xfix has been removed from the recovery mode fixit
> menu.  Yes, Karmic is still beta and the annoying kernel failure and kwin
> failure messages are only getting worse. Perhaps the devs will fix it
> eventually.
> Re: your root prompt issue, did you type exit in the console?
> That or "cntrl D" from the keyboard.
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
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Exit did not get me out.  I'll try cntr d thanks
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