How do you get 16.04 to boot?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 23:16:09 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 16:16:38 -0400, Dick Dowdell wrote:
>>I've had no problems booting 16.04. Yiu might want to look at
>>https://askubuntu.com/questions/763638/no-more-boot-logging-since-16-04.  
>
>Hi,
>
>how should a user run journalctl, when logging in doesn't work? From a
>live media it would be possible to mount the install and to e.g. run
>
>  sudo systemd-nspawn -qD /mount/point
>
>and after that to run
>
>  journalctl
>
>but even this might fail, so after mounting at best
>
>  sudo strings /mount/point/var/log/journal/*/system.journal
>
>might provide some information. However, even
>
>  less /mount/point/var/log/boot.log
>
>or any other log IMO is more confusing, than helpful as the first step
>of troubleshooting.
>
>IMO the first step of troubleshooting should be to read if GRUB and/or
>the startup messages are complaining about something. Users who prefer
>an idiotic splash thingy over messages, simply need to push the Esc-key
>to see the startup messages.
>
>Are there any GRUB (or what ever bootloader you are using) messages?
>If not and assuming it should start booting, are there any messages
>after pushing the Esc-key?
>
>Regards,
>Ralf

PS:

If neither GRUB, nor startup messages don't give a hint, the second
step would be to care about e.g. the display manager log files and the X
log file. I don't know how helpful "dmesg" could be as the second step,
if at all.

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