Ubuntu Servers :: 10.04 32 Bit Doesn't Boot Only Passes Bios?
May 4, 2011
I've been running 10.04 server for 3 months from a fresh install. I have been installing updates while Bind9, Apache2 and Samba worked just fine. The last time I installed updates was 3 weeks ago and it worked just fine.
Today I ran into problems where the system stopped doing its DNS stuff and wouldn't respond to pings over the network. Since I couldn't get it to respond with a keyboard and monitor attached to it I shut it down through the power switch. I then tried to restart the machine and all it would do was go through the bios and show a cursor flashing in the upper left or this odd color pattern on the screen and then reboot
I have tried pulling the HD and loaded it into my Ubuntu desktop and loaded the file system just fine. I then tried using the "rescue a broken system" option Ubuntu 10.04 32bit install disk and it seems to just sit at a flashing cursor.
I've seen some odd things pop up on the screen at times but mainly would be a flashing cursor in the upper left part of the screen.
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May 6, 2010
I donwload the Ubuntu 10.04 *32bits ISO image, and i burned each image with diferent speeds. Then, i tried to install, appears the Language Selection screen, all good. then, the Localization screen, I select Colombia (I'm from Colombia), clic on forward and the mouse shows the "loading animation", but the PC doesn't do anything (I let it for 30 minutes). I tried with the 2 CD, but ever the same result. And in some times when I try to out and reboot appears an error, so I have to reboot manually (with a button ).
And other problem, is that my BIOS doesn't let me boot form USB, so I can't install form USB. The last opportunity, and tried to install it, upgrading from Ubuntu 9.10, but in the instalation it gave me some errors, and in the 80% (or something like that), appears a window asking me to install GRUB AND EVERYTHING FREEZES, so I had to rebbot manually, and reinstall Ubuntu 9.10.
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Mar 13, 2011
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Jun 10, 2010
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Now i am missing the terms: I replaced the "thing" where the monitor gets plugged (i would say its a PCI-slot, but as the graphics are build-in it doesn't seem to be a graphics-card. I simply don't know. I searched for PCI-slot +monitor and that picture should show it: picture). I rebooted with a live CD and voila: i get a screen. I rebooted into the installed OS and i get a screen. Then it freezes. "Cold reboot" (if it is called that way): again nothing.
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Mar 12, 2011
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Mar 14, 2011
i'm currently using windows vista and want to boot opensuse11.4 from my usb drive but my BIOS doesn't support it. please explain steps to install it on vista hard-disk,i'm getting confused following steps posted on theris website
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Oct 14, 2010
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.
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Apr 16, 2010
Well today I decided that I couldn't wait for the offical release of 10.04 LTS, so I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS Beta 2. After realizing that many problems had come with that update, I decided to just format my Ubuntu partition and reinstall it. Somehow my GRUB stopped working from when I formatted Ubuntu, so I whipped out the old Toshiba recovery disk for Windows Vista 32bit. After many attempts to have the recovery portion of the disk fix all of my problems and seeing no results, I decided that reinstalling Ubuntu (and GRUB) might make everything all better. Well it didn't. Grub shows my Windows partition but fails to boot it. After selecting it, it goes to a blank screen and stops responding. And to add to all of my problems, my BIOS has changed slightly. It no longer shows/or responds to F2 or F12 when I tried to give another try at that Toshiba recovery disk. That kinda sucks since I can't choose what to boot. Please help me!! I really don't want to have to format my entire hard drive and try to install Windows Vista again (Not that Vista is anything anyone should love) I have many expensive programs that can only be activated a certain amount of times. I don't even think that I could reinstall Vista since my BIOS won't let me boot the CD/DVD drive.
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Feb 9, 2011
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Jan 4, 2011
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But I noticed a very quick flash during boot in between the Compaq Screen and GRUB. It only started coming after the RAM upgrade. I'm not able to make out what exactly is written. It's too fast. Will try with a proper camera at home. In any case, I could make out some large number probably in the order of gigabytes written in bytes. Again, not sure of the exact value.
So I get a little curious about this message and decide to run a memory test. It's working perfectly. Around 74%, it stops and says Memory Test Passed and moves on to check the HDD. I try the same from the BIOS. In the BIOS, it's a progress bar and no percentage value mentioned. Though the BIOS says 4096MB of memory, the progress bar also stops at roughly 75% and says passed. I'm not even sure what to search for on Google though I tried and got no similar results.
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I am suspicious about the shut down button,because it,s a long time that this button usually is blinking.
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So my question: Is there any way to boot from a USB without having to go into the BIOS? code...
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Sep 19, 2010
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Oct 16, 2010
I understand this is not directly an ubuntu issue, but this arose as I was trying to install ubuntu, so I'm hoping some kind souls on here would be good enough to help anyway.
I've in the past installed ubuntu on to my PC using a CD, but this time I thought I'd try creating a USB startup disk.
I was required to set up the BIOS to change the boot order so I can boot from the USB flash drive.
The problems arose when I pushed the 'DEL' key (the correct key for my motherboard) to access the BIOS setup. When doing this the computer completely froze and would not progress any further to boot. It would still boot normally from the HDD provided I didn't try to enter the BIOS.
Looking on the internet for a solution I tried using the motherboard jumper to reset the CMOS. Now I can't boot up the computer at all. I get a message saying 'CMOS checksum error - Defaults loaded' then it asks me to press F1 to continue. I try this, but nothing happens. Clearing the CMOS has made things worse as now I can't get the computer to boot at all.
Have I killed my motherboard somehow? I've tried using a different keyboard (one USB and the other a USB keyboard but with an adaptor to connect it to the P/S2 port).
On further investigation any key press from the keyboard is enough to freeze the computer at whatever point.
My motherboard is an WinFast NF4SK8AA with AMD Athlon processor and 4Gb of mem.
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Nov 16, 2010
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Feb 21, 2011
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Apr 18, 2011
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