asus u30jc notebook with ubuntu 11.04 problem

quazisaad · 07-06-2011, 12:59 PM

hello

i hv an asus u30jc notebook. ubuntu 11.04 instales ok. but when it reboots i cannot see anything. just black void. i hv tried everything possible. even tried bumblebee. with this web (http://soldant.wordpress.com/2011/07...-ubuntu-11-04/) suggestion. still no go. any help will be much appreciated.

regards

sAAd

yancek · 07-06-2011, 02:59 PM

Is Ubuntu 11.04 the only operating system?
Did the installation complete successfully? Did you get a message telling you so and asking you to reboot and remove the installation CD?
During the installation, did you select where to install the Grub bootloader? Did you accept the defaults? Do you have only one hard drive?

quazisaad · 07-06-2011, 10:57 PM

Is Ubuntu 11.04 the only operating system? - dual boot with windows 7
Did the installation complete successfully? - yes
Did you get a message telling you so and asking you to reboot and remove the installation CD? - yes
During the installation, did you select where to install the Grub bootloader? - yes
Did you accept the defaults? - yes
Do you have only one hard drive? - yes

i can boot to safe mode. i also can go to command prompt.

yancek · 07-06-2011, 11:31 PM

Next step, boot the Ubuntu CD and when you get to the Desktop, click the Applications tab and find Terminal. Click it to open the terminal and enter this command to get partition information to post: sudo fdisk -l (lower case Letter L in the command).

Do you know how to mount partitions and navigate in the terminal?

quazisaad · 07-07-2011, 06:06 AM

though i am not a master of linux but i surely can mount partitions and navigate terminal. thank you. funny thing is i hv installed linux mint 11 in my acer ferrari one 200 netbook. no problemo. then intalled suse 11.4 in my hp probook 17.3". everything fine. i work at both environments. quite fluently. thats why all my machines are dual booted. i installed ubuntu 11.04 3 times already. same result. though i hv not tried other distributions. but thanks for help guys. hope this helps.

Quote:

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6c3eda3b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 13 39895 320346112 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 48053 60802 102400000 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 39896 48052 65521072 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 39896 39957 497983+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 39958 42506 20474811 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 42507 43143 5116671 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 43144 48052 39431511 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

yancek · 07-07-2011, 08:12 PM

You have three Linux partitions and sda5 looks like a boot partition. Do you remember if you created a separate boot partition? I haven't installed 11.04 so don't know what the defaults are. Anyhow, if it is, mount that partition and check to see if you have a grub.cfg file in the /boot/grub directory and post the contents.

I'm wondering if it might be a graphics card issue. You could open a terminal and run this command to get info: lspci | grep -i vga

Of course if it works from the Live CD, it should work installed.