Having tried all the codes I could find by putting them into the boot menu, I now hope to systematically follow the advice of Aldeby given in the comments to the last post.
First of all his advice to go through the Function keys:
alt+F1
starting up….
Loading, please wait…
usplash: setting mode 1280×1280 failed
usplash: setting mode 1152×864 failed
usplash: using mode 1024/768
kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/disk/by-uuid/482503ea-1a16-4a02-a271-70cde4c9694e) =sda6 (8,6)
kinit:trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/482503ea-1a16-4a02-a271-70cde4c9694e
kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot…Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty1
myname-laptop login:myname
Password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
last login: Mon Dec 3 12:02:01 GMT 2007 on tty1
Linux philip-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sunday Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software (etc)
philip@philip-laptop:~$
alt+F2
Ubuntu 7.10 philip-laptop tty2
philip-laptop login:
alt+F3
Ubuntu 7.10 philip-laptop tty3
philip-laptop login:
alt+F4
Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty4
philip-laptop login:
alt+F5
Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty5
philip-laptop login:
alt+F6
Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty6
philip-laptop login:
alt+F7
no response.
The question that arises from this is, once I get to
philip@philip-laptop:~$
where do I go from there? I haven’t a clue. All of the above is in a black screen.
I next tried
philip@philip-laptop:~$ sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
Result:
E325: ATTENTION
Found a swap file by the name “etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist.swp
owned by: root dated: Sun Dec 2 14:46:24 2007
filename:etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist
modified: YES
username:root host name myname-laptop
process ID 5524
While opening file “etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist”
dated Fri Ot 5 17:41:12 2007(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two
different instances of the same file when making changes.
Quit, or continue with caution.
2) An edit session for this file crashed.
If this is the case, use “:recover” or “vim-r /etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist”
I lost (3) as the screen went blank and hitting a key brings up another dense page of warnings.
So now, when I get another minute, I’m going to follow 2 of the 3 extra suggestions by Aldeby:
1) upgrade your BIOS from Vista (a new version has been released recently)
2) downloading another image and burn it with a CD-R medium (or at least a new CD-RW or at least not the same cd-rw!!)
