Hi All,

Hoping Someone can help me. I'm a relative newbie. I've used Ubuntu for a couple of years, but I know VERY little about command line, and I pretty much don't know how to fix things. Sorry!

I just did the "update manager" update to 11.04 and my system which is relatively new and worked perfectly until right after the upgrade suddenly won't boot after the restart.

Hardware:
Asus Motherboard M4A785-M w/ ATI onboard video
500 GB Sata Hard Drive
AMD Quadcore processor
4 Gig of Memory

I tried going to the recovery mode and "repairing broken packages" but it tells me that zero files will be downloaded or changed. Then, I tried using the USB to boot and reload the OS (which I used on another computer and it worked perfectly) but it won't boot to USB. I tried an old version 9 CD but it won't boot to CD (yes I checked the boot order in BIOS and my HD was last in line). So- I attempt to boot- and it starts to load. I get the purple splash screen. Then it goes black, and immediately drops me into a list of errors and tells me all things that it's "starting/stopping" and says "0k" to each except one which in red says something about "stopping automatic crash report" which says "fail".

The only thing it lets me do from there is Control-Alt-Delete. I can sometimes get to the Recovery mode, by holding the left shift, and I did manage to use a "previous linux version" to boot- picked the first one on the list. But it's a one time deal, then it goes back to not booting.

I searched some forums for ideas since I was at a loss for what to do. One "solution" I saw was try the sudo apt-get clean, sudo apt-get update, sudo apt-get upgrade, but that didn't help either. I really want to avoid wiping the drive if I can help it. I just can't figure out how to make this thing boot, or why it refuses to boot to CD and USB.

Anyone have any ideas that can help? Can I somehow get it back to booting to 10.10? It might be worth it at this point!?

Thanks to anyone who can help me. I need very clear instructions please. I'm very clueless about any terminal stuff yet. Thanks!

Kris

Were you using Ubuntu 11.04 for some time and then did some update?
Were you using an earlier version of Ubuntu and did an upgrade to 11.04?
What happened when you did the update/upgrade?
Did you get a successfuly message?
Did you get any error messages?
Anything?

I was using 10.10 and did the update manager to upgrade to 11.04 It told me it was successful. Then it said to restart. I immediately was unable to boot and got a long list of what was "ok" and being "started and stopped". One item on the list was an automatic crash report that said "fail" in red.

It never booted normally. Just gave me that list of what was "ok" then hung there. All I could do was CTL-Alt-Delete or reset. Couldn't enter text, or esc. or anything.

---------- Post added 06-28-11 at 05:16 PM ----------

I saw a pic of the message last night- if I can find it I'll put a link to it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.p...4&d=1304440979

Looked just like this one.

Some distros will let you repair the Master Boot Record by booting from the install CD. I'm not suggesting this is your problem but I suppose the MBR could have gotten messed up somehow.

If you use Grub, take a look at the menu.lst file and try to determine if anything has happened to it.

Sorry I can't offer any more help.

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately If I looked at the MBR I wouldn't know what I'm supposed to be looking for. Plus when I try to boot to the CD it just doesn't do it.