Kubuntu won't boot

Liam Proven lproven at gmail.com
Wed Jul 28 09:30:44 UTC 2021


On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 at 11:27, Nicholas Saunders
<saunders.nicholas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> well, just coming at this tangentially:
>
> if a live USB drive or similar works, then probably your hardware is mostly fine.  Never hurts to run a RAM test.

Agreed.

> Anyhow, if it's possible, swap out the hard drive.  Can you pop that hard drive into another machine?

Also a good point.

> A more technical approach would be, I think, to delve into GRUB.  That however, is beyond my skill-level.

Depends on whether it's UEFI or BIOS.

> For general RCA (Root Cause Analysis) I suggest trying to isolate the problem.  Probably your motherboard and RAM are fine.

Agreed.

Could I ask you to please _bottom_ post on the list? Your reply should
go _beneath_ the trimmed text you're answering. Gmail does it just
fine -- I am doing it right now.

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