blank screen after boot-up after failed upgrade

[Karl F. Larsen]

blittle2 at nyc.rr.com wrote:
> Hello, Detlef. Thank you so much for responding. I'm not sure if my first email showed the entire issue since your response only showed half of first post but here is the issue in full again: 
> 
> I have a Dell Laptop Inspiron 1501 AMD 64 Athlon X2 system that dual boots Ubuntu 8.04 and Windoze.
> Here is what happened:
> 
> Decided to upgrade to 8.10, (the plan was to proceed to subsequent upgrades so I can get to Ubuntu 9.10 when released) I stupidly had the laptop running on battery at the time the upgrade was unpackaging and installing then the laptop died. Upon boot up, I get the following after grub:
>> [ 0.004000] Aperture beyond 4GB. Ignoring.
>> [ 0.024001] ..MP-BIOS bug: 8254 timer not connected to IO-APIC
>> [ 0.520167] Kernel panic - not synching: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
>>
>> Later, I went into grub and chose one of the recovery modes and told Ubuntu to fix broken packages and it began to proceed with the broken packages and installation. This seemed to fix the startup issue which I think was just hangin at the error messages I posted earlier. Now I'm able to log in, however the system hangs on a blank desktop and never shows the gui. Just a mouse arrow.
> 
> When I now boot up, I get the login screen  but after I log in, all I get is a blank or the Ubuntu beige background as if the desktop is about to appear, but it doesn't. Instead I just get a my cursor/mouse arrow and there is no error message at all. I have even left the screen like that for about an hour, with no error whats so ever. Has anyone seen this before?
> I'm suspecting that it may have to do with a video setting at thsi point. My video card is a ATI Radeon series(driver).
> 

	Do you have your personal page /home/??? in a partition? If 
not I would put yours in a new partition, so you can load 
Ubuntu 9.10 when it is available next week. Be sure your 
laptop is plugged in...hi


Karl


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