Stuck at the login screen (Jonas Norlander)

[Brian Wootton]

On 12/01/11 11:36, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, Brian Wootton wrote:
>> >  got the grub prompt eventually but it would only allow me to type a single
>> >  character before giving the prompt again.
>> >  So bye bye Lucid, Maverick here I come
> I'm thinking you have a hardware problem......
>
>
You were so right, it was either a dud SATA II port on the motherboard 
or a badly
routed data cable, this is all I fiddled with in the tower and it 
appeared to fix the
problem - Maverick install failed at the partitioning stage until I had 
mucked about
with the hard drive cabling. I've heard reports in the past about 
mis-matching on
the SATA II data link cable - signal reflections causing errors.
Anyway, the upgrade from Lucid to Maverick has been pretty painless - so 
far - as
you can see.
brian