lost bootup to desktop

[nepal]

On Saturday 15 December 2007, Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> > I had a power cut today while Kubuntu 7.10 was up and
> > running. When I try to boot the pc, I see the Kubuntu
> > loading screen with the blue progress bar for a few
> > seconds then I get a black screen with just a flashing
> > cursor in the top corner. No x seems to be loaded, I
> > can do nothing at this point except reboot with
> > Ctrl+Alt+Del. Ctrl+Alt+BS does nothing. Is my system
> > screwed or is it possible to get it back up and
> > running.
> >
> > Note I have/had Nvidia drivers installed.
> >
> > Can anyone advise please?
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > nepal
>
> Try editing GRUB to boot Kubuntu without the splash
> screen (Turn on comp, highlight Kubuntu, hit 'e' to edit
> the boot options, and then remove the option that says
> something about "splash" or replace it with "nosplash").
>  Now you should be able to see where your comp is hanging
> during boot.
>
> HTH
>
> Andrew

I did that. It stopped the splash screen from being 
displayed, but I still got no text messages. However, it 
did get me to see the boot menu and I used the safe boot 
mode, it ran fsck, I responded to some fixes and now it 
seems ok again. So you did help, thanks.

I am happy with Kubuntu, because despite a few problems such 
as this, every time it had got fixed relatively simply. 
I've even managed a couple of times using the on-line docs 
with specific commands to type in.

Yes, happy user. :)

nepal.