How do you get 16.04 to boot?

[Pastor JW]

On 07/01/2017 11:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 14:45:50 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
>> That is closer to what is wrong rather than logging, although I can't
>> find error messages in the log.  14.04 used to boot fine but the
>> upgrade to 16.04 no longer does that.  Grub evidently no longer works
>> for some reason.  Using the escape key to get advanced options, only
>> the one that says "upstart" will work but that is always a manual
>> thing instead of a boot script.  I've tried everything in the recovery
>> menu to try and fix it but nothing. There is evidently no working
>> bootloader anymore in 16.04.
> Please, reply to the mailing list.
>
> I nearly missed this reply, because it was in the wrong folder of my
> MUA.
>
> I'm sending my reply to the mailing list ;).
>
> You described that a disk check starts to run, when using a boot menu
> entry without upstart, however, just in case upload /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> to e.g. https://pastebin.com/ and post the link to the mailing list.
>
>
I guess it is here, never have tried to use it before. 
https://pastebin.com/96CpeCUK