ubuntu 9.10 boot problem

1817 Views 9 Replies 5 Participants Last post by error10, Nov 28, 2009

sillymansam

Discussion Starter · Nov 28, 2009

I was tinkering inside my bios on one of my boxes I've got set up dual booting and ended up having to reset cmos, which isn't a big deal. My problem now is once I get past grub and select to boot into ubuntu I get the two beeps and a black screen. When it was working I would get two beeps and a moment then it would start up. I didn't create disk I just upgraded from the previous version 9.04(?) and I haven't bothered checking it through safe mode since this happened last night. Just wonder if anyone had some form of a idea on what I did.

Save

1 - 10 of 10 Posts

-iceblade^

· #2 · Nov 28, 2009

ubuntu likes playing up when it comes to rebooting.

make sure everything is set in the bios the way it was before it started playing up, and also, make sure the drive has been shut down cleanly. then, if it boots, hit boot in recovery mode.

Save

error10

· #3 · Nov 28, 2009

Bah. Ubuntu STILL does not use LVM by default during installation, which is utterly ridiculous. Among other things it solves about 99% of these boot problems. It does, however, use UUIDs, which should eliminate any BIOS boot-order issues.

I would have to say, try booting it using the recovery mode option and see what happens.

Save

MrAMD_Fan

· #4 · Nov 28, 2009

what about the sata config, AHCI versus native mode or whatever it is called. What ever it is set for maybe switch that? I'm not sure, i've never had issues with ubuntu and booting but obviously it was something you changed in the bios. I know windows would do the same thing with the AHCI and native mode not being set right (depending on how it was originally loaded).

Save

sillymansam

Discussion Starter · #5 · Nov 28, 2009

I just check the XP partition and about to reboot and check bios then boot into safe mode for ubuntu. I'll post when I find out.

Save

sillymansam

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 28, 2009

ok...so I did the (what ubuntu calls) recovery mode and some checking disk stuff flashed a few times then it decided that I didn't need the "package" and a few y/n options came up and so I went through those and then asked me to log in so I tried nothing work. I managed to tell it to reboot and once I got back through grub it started working again and apparently faster than before?! I'm guess this is one of those situations where you just start mashing buttons to get stuff to work.....

Save

error10

· #7 · Nov 28, 2009

If it's working, I wouldn't complain too much... unless you're the sort who really HATES not knowing why.

Save

Bluescreen_Of_Death

· #8 · Nov 28, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by sillymansam

Sometimes, Linux just needs a chance to fix its mistakes. Every time I install Arch on my desktop, my / and /boot partitions need to fsck before they'll properly mount. After that, they work like a charm.

See less See more

Save

sillymansam

Discussion Starter · #9 · Nov 28, 2009

Hate is a bit of a strong word, it's more of an itch I get when I've gotten myself into something and fixed it but couldn't figure out how I did it. heh

Save

error10

· #10 · Nov 28, 2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by sillymansam

Hate is a bit of a strong word, it's more of an itch I get when I've gotten myself into something and fixed it but couldn't figure out how I did it. heh

I'd probably try to hunt down whatever scripts are running during "recovery mode" and see what they do.

See less See more

Save

1 - 10 of 10 Posts

This is an older thread, you may not receive a response, and could be reviving an old thread. Please consider creating a new thread.

Top Contributors this Month