Ubuntu won't boot, just goes to a black screen. When I use a boot disk, it gives me this error message
(initramfs) /dev/loop0 (cdrom/caspev/filesyste/squashfs)
(this may not be completely correct) What should I do?
Ever since the problem with Flash started up a few days ago, (Videos Lagging/jumpy/jerky horridly.) I decided to finally switch from 9.10 to 10.04...all was going well until a few minutes ago while I was browsing themes and running Konversation, the skin flickered black/green a few times then white vertical lines started appearing down from the top of the screen to about the middle, (Almost looked like the teeth on a haircomb). I had to then shutdown and restart. What id like to know is are the two connected (My earlier flash problem and this) or how I can fix it, so far it hasn't happened again but I'm starting to worry, I've never had problems with Ubuntu until a few weeks ago.
View 2 Replies View RelatedCould i install ubuntu and whenever i boot my pc up, is it possible to boot up automatically into windows without any OS choosing screen appearing; and instead only boot into ubuntu when i have the livecd in my drive and boot from it?Im the only one who knows about Ubuntu in my family and most would be quite confused if they didnt find thereselves booting into windows as they normally would. So to get around this and to have Ubuntu at the same time, i want to only be able to access ubuntu by putting in the live cd and booting it from that. Or is it possible for information that i download etc. to be stored onto the livecd itself?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI can't seem to get Ubuntu to run on my old Dell Dimension 2300. It boots to a purple screen then it goes to a black screen with a load of writing nothing else happens after this screen. [URL] Could someone advise how I can get it to work?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI turned on my Acer laptop and during bootup it seemed normal. After it passed the blue Acer logo, all I could see is a black screen and a black cursor outlined in white in the shape of an X. Thinking it would be a one time thing, I turned it off again.it still was a black screen.
View 14 Replies View Related'm trying to duel boot windows 7 and ubuntu 11.04 on an Acer Aspire 5736, but when I try to boot from the cd (which I burned with InfraRecorder) it first goes to a black screen with a blinking under score in the corner, then to a purple screen with a couple symbols at the bottom, and then the screen goes black and nothing else ever happens
View 4 Replies View RelatedAfter succesfully installing Ubuntu 10.4 x32 and rebooting pc hangs on black screen with a flashing white dot in the top left corner of my screen, i've tried installing it twice with the same results.
my setup is: Asus p5q-e,
4 gig of corsair dual ram,
ati 4850 graphics,
onboard audio.
ahci mode
win 7 installed on intel ssd, and xp on a samsung 320 gb sata 2,
i had this configuration running fine for 2 months without boot loaders,
on pc start up i choose from which hdd to boot from.
i installed ubuntu on the samsung drive where it was recognised fine, wiped it all and installed automatically.
pls let me know if there is anything i missed, and advice if possible in what to do.
thanks
kannanni
I've got two laptops running Ubuntu. Both have had Lucid installed from the live cd. I have upgraded one of them to Maverick. Both distributions are running great after they boot up, but I haven't experienced any faster boot times with either distibution. Both boot to Bios and then the screen goes black with a blinking cursor in upper left corner of the screen. The black screen remains for 30 to 45 seconds and then I get the Ubuntu splash screen for maybe 5 seconds, and then desktop. Why am I not seeing faster boot times? I realize 45 to 60 seconds is good compared to other os's, but I anticipated much faster boot times. Shut down on the other hand is quite fast at maybe 5 to 10 seconds. Does anyone else get this black screen on boot? Seems like wasted time cause I can't tell what's going on during the time there is a black screen. This is not a real big deal breaker, as I don't reboot very often, but I just wonder why bootup isn't faster.
View 7 Replies View RelatedSo, the problem is that _sometimes_ (I'd say around 5-10% of the time) when booting ubuntu, right after the splash screen (that pulsing white ubuntu logo on a black background), when normally GDM should pop in, I get a black screen and it stays like that and I have to reboot the machine. This is very annoying because I get this behaviour sometimes 3-4 times in a row... Also, sometimes (maybe half of the times when I get that black screen) the HDD LED on my laptop remains lit and the caps lock LED flashes. Right now I'm using a clean install of ubuntu 9.10, but I had the exact same problem with a 9.04 install and a 9.04 to 9.10 upgrade (so I had 9.04, I had the problem, I then upgraded to 9.10, the problem remained, and then I did a fresh install of 9.10 and the problem is still there).
My hardware is a Asus X51RL laptop, with a dual core CPU, 2GB Ram and a ATI X1100 video board. I also could paste a copy of any log you want me to, to help you identify the problem (but it would probably take some time for me to get that black screen, and also I hope that the logs remain saved after I do a hard reboot).
i'm some what new when it comes to using ubuntu. I had an improper shutdown and now when I try to use recovery mode or simply load the first unbuntu option I get an all black screen. can some one help please. I don't know what to do.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm going through this again. I posted this here as well as in the Mint forums because the architecture is very similar. What happens is that when I reboot, the screen goes black at the steps of the boot after about three seconds with each step. So I see the bios enumeration, then the screen goes black; I see the start up sequence with "Linux Mint" and the green/white dots beneath it, then the screen goes black; then finally, I hear (but don't see) the beep when the password login prompt shows. But if I get into the bios (dealing with the screen going black each time) and change it to "load default settings", then it reboots and works fine. Till the next time I boot.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi have tried installing wubu , when i boot i get an option for more options "esc" key, if i dont press esc and wait for 5 seconds my screen goes black!(as if i turned off my screen). and aso i went into more options and tried safe graphics mode! i have older posts about this using 10.04 but now i tried 10.10 , but still a no go! i tried booting from cd as well (i burned image on maxell dvd+rw 4.7gb) but still i get black?i think its because of my video card (nvidia g210m with cuda?) my computer is a sony vaio vpcl11m1e.
Windows 7 ultimate
64-bit
4gb ram
500gb hdd
2.93 ghz
full hd 1080p
nVidia geforce g210m with cuda
I was messing around with the screen orientation and thought it would be funny to orient it sideways. Big mistake The screen went black.I can force a shutdown, login and I get the same black screen. I tried hooking up an external monitor and the monitor showed no input so I'm guessing my laptop doesn't have that capability with Fedora.This is my main computer.
View 14 Replies View RelatedP4, Ubuntu 10.10 beta, 1.5gb mem, 80gb hdd.
After the on-board video chip failed, I added a ATI RADEON V7500-P128 video card. Works fine, hi resolution but the b/w print characters on screen are dim to the point that items cannot be viewed. Tried a lower resolution to no avail. How do I darken the font?
Last weekend, I upgraded my old PC and installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a brand new pc. It worked perfectly for 5 days. When I got home tonight, it wouldn't boot and got stuck on a black screen.
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I really am a newby here but I think that the blkid command gives me my uuid. The uuid in the /dev/disk/by-uuid directory is in blue so I'm guessing that this is a symbolic link. And then, when I try to create a symbolic link with the ln command, it already exists... But the issue is that the UUID that is referenced in the error displayed is not the same as the UUID in my /dev/disk/by-uuid directory.
I have had a really bad day (the first, after months of faultless operation)) with my Acer 5720Z laptop running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty. First thing was at the second startup today, nothing other than totally black or white screens showed during boot. However, the ubuntu jingle was heard after the normal time it takes to boot, so I was certain it was strictly some video problem.
Ok, so after having thought about this for a while and reading about similar issues here and there on the web I was struck by the fact that not even the Acer screen with bios info etc. showed normally just after power-up. By then I had dragged a second, stationary computer to the livingroom, so I thought I'd check if there'd be video output from the Acer's VGA port. There was, and the ubuntu desktop looking perfectly normal. Aha! - only the backlight working on the Acer's LCD screen, but no video? So I thought I'd check for loose connectors to the LCD or damaged wiring (installed replacement LCD myself some months ago with no problems). This is going to be easy, I thought (being more of a gearhead/hardware type of guy) Turned the Acer laptop off and unscrewed the screen frame stuff. Now I just start it and switch back to internal display... For some reason (too many unclean shutdown(s) during the early "blind" nervous phase of the problem, I suppose) the Acer now hangs with a black screen before boot is complete and I am unable to switch between external/internal monitors. Fortunately I can use the external monitor (video is stuck to the external VGA on startup), get to command prompt etc. so there should be hope. But I have no idea how to sort this out after many unsuccessful attempts. (Recovery mode, disk check etc.)
I can't find any sort of safe graphics mode option in the GRUB menu. Booting from the Ubuntu 9.04 ("live" option) also finally stalls with a black screen and nothing further happening, just like the install that's on the PC.
how Ubuntu 9.10 runs on a stationary HP Pavillion 1840 which I rescued from the trash just like the Acer laptop.
When I boot to Kubuntu 9.10, it asks me to login and I do, But then It just doesn't boot.
View 9 Replies View Relatedwhen i get the boot loader screen i choose Ubuntu , and then i get to choose recovery mode or Normal mode , in either , i get some sort of a list , and then i Get a Black Screen , Nth ,But i hear a sound of May be Ubuntu starting ...so what can i do to see my Ubuntu ????is there is away for help , i just need to run Both my Original Reinstalled Win 7 64 bit ,
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have an asus netbook with an intel GMA integrated chip. until now i had been using the out of the box drivers, hadn't changed anything, and it worked ok. I tried installing a graphics driver and rebooted. This time i got the command line only, logged in, uninstalled the driver (apt-get remove) and rebooted, now after i choose ubuntu in GRUB an instant after the ubuntu loading screen comes on it goes to black. I'm trying to find a way from within GRUB to get it to do a command-line boot so i could force it to use the default drivers (how would i do this exactly?), but when i press "e" and then put "text" at the end of the "kernel" line it doesn't change anything. so what do i do from here? worst case scenario i reinstall ubuntu.
View 2 Replies View Related so I had a black screen when I was starting up my PC instead of the normal Ubuntu with the dots underneath. I have Ubuntu 11.04 on a dual-boot with Windows Vista. It would still boot normally and work fine but I wanted it with the Ubuntu and dots etc.
After looking at many sites to try and fix it that didn't work I found this: [URL]. That didn't work so I found this next: [URL]
I did what it said by removing
Code:
vt.handoff=7
Then when rebooted I got the Ubuntu with the purple background and dots but the boot would hang (always when all 5 dots were orange). I booted into recovery mode and I chose "File System Check" on reboot and it would get to the bit with 5 orange dots then it would check disk for errors and go to login screen then work fine.
If I added vt.handoff=7 it would boot normally with a black screen again.
RESULTS.txt is from when I had vt.handoff=7 removed and I was in Recovery mode>resume normal boot>"sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script.sh".
RESULTS1.txt is from when I booted up with the disk check and was in Terminal.
EDIT: Also just recently I'm getting a lot of boot hangs, freezes (where everything on screen will freeze and if I was playing music in Banshee it repeats the last 3 seconds until I hold down button on PC), and it will sometimes just restart randomly. Not sure if that related or not...
I downloaded a bunch of updates with PackageKit, afterwards I had to restart. Now when I did, all I would get is a blank screen, no blinking prompt line or anything. I did a cold boot and the same thing happened. So, I tried it a third time and all is fine. I'm running FC11 and I'm glad everything is back to normal,but what might have caused this in the first place?
View 5 Replies View RelatedWhen i try to boot up for the 1st time it says: Completing Ubuntu Install. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0 ... No Signal.I have installed with Wubi, and also tryed with a USB. Nothing works. Signal.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an alienware m17 with an Ati graphics card. I was able to log on and install all current updates as well as the card driver update where I was then prompted to restart. Upon doing so, I get the grub loading plus splash screen. My screen then goes blank followed by a noise in my laptop. I have tried nomodeset as well as taking out splash nothing has worked. Also, upon booting up I get lucky if I can get into Recovery mode.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu has been crashing on boot. I used a recovery mode kernal and went into failsafe mode, upon which point a msgbox told me to switch to low graphics. Then Ubuntu looked completely normal and functional with no problems. To me - an Ubuntu amateur, it seems like a driver problem and that running in failsafe mode will have its setbacks.
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn effort to fix garbled text when scrolling I attempted to boot into safe graphics mode. I now get to the login screen, enter password and then go to black screen.
Kubuntu 10.04 upgrade
geforce FX5200 graphics card
2gb memory
AMD XP2800+
I am relatively new to Ubuntu ; I started 6 months ago with 9.10 and it worked fine. Recently I bought from Ubuntu the 10.04 version in French. The installation (dual boot with W7) went well, I personalized the software and had the "brilliant" idea to execute the recommended updates. Restarting the computer I just saw for a couple of seconds the blip up left and then a black screen. Nothing else happened. Posts to the French Ubuntu forum yielded no solution, so I decided to reinstall 10.04 again. It worked well a couple of times, and then again I had the black screen and no boot. How can I delete the installed versions?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an Acer Aspire One that runs Windows XP. I downloaded both the full Ubuntu (latest version but can't remember the number) and the Ubuntu for netbooks- each on a separate flash drive. I thought I had the netbook version in my Acer when I booted it up, but I saw it was booting the full Ubuntu version. Instead of allowing it to finish installing to run from the flash drive, I stupidly shut it down and removed the flash drive. Ever since then, when I try to boot my Acer, all I get is the black screen of death. I've tried the flashit.exe to flash the BIOS, but no luck. So, I'm guessing it's not a BIOS issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an 80GB HDD where I installed Windows XP first and then Ubuntu. The thing is that whenever I shut down my computer and then turn it back on (wether it's right away or a few hours later, or the next day), I get the GRUB screen where you have to choose Ubuntu, but after that just a completely black screen. I then have to force a shutdown, then turn it back on, and it works. Whenever I restart it works too, this seems to happen only after a shutdown.
Specs:
Dell Dimension 4600
P4 2.8 GHz procesor
2GB RAM
ATI Radeon x1650 video card
80GB HDD
I have tried booting from 2 different Ubuntu CD's (10-04-01 and 10-10) and a Fedora CD.All 3 CD's do the same thing, in Ubuntu I just see the first screen (Keyboard/Battery on the bottom with the guy next to it) and then the screen goes black but the lights, that indicate there's a computer connected and transmitting info onto the screen, are still on.
I know the CD's aren't the problem because they work on 2 other computers I have.The CD drive isn't the problem because took it out of a working computer and that booted up fine with the CD's.I've restored BIOS to default settings.I've tried booting with 1 stick of ram at a time but still doesn't boot.I've left the computer on for 3 hours but nothing appeared on the screen and the lights never turned off. It was just a black screen, nothing on it, not even a blinking cursor.I know it's capable of booting up CD's because the Windows XP setup disc boots.