strange boot problem

[O. Sinclair]

On 11/05/2013 15:18, Nils Kassube wrote:
> O. Sinclair wrote:
>> being on Kubuntu 12.04 I have for some time now experienced a strange
>> problem I can not solve and searching has not given me any hints on.
>>
>> When I choose "recovery boot" option the boot will start, then the
>> screen goes blank and - nothing.
>>
>> I suspect I am missing the "menu" that normally would come up but can
>> not find any info on package, how to activate or what.
>
> The menu comes from the package "friendly-recovery" but it is probably
> installed. Otherwise you would simply end up with a root shell but not a
> black screen.
>
> I suppose you have a problem with the graphic mode selected. Otherwise
> you should see lots of kernel messages during the boot process. You
> could edit the grub command line for the recovery mode and you could add
> the option "nomodeset" to the kernel command line (e.g. after the "ro").
> Furthermore make sure that there is no option "splash".
>

Thanks Nils, tried all of those and no luck. Even removed 
friendly-recovery to possibly get a root command login but no luck. 
Still just a blank screen.

Weird cause this worked, have no idea how, what or when it changed.