Updates crashed 3 Edubuntu desktop

[Chris]

Hi,

Sorry I've been very busy with the Stars program and forgot completely about
this problem.
It Was the New Grub that was the problem, it seems to have been fixed.
Chris.

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:23 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca>wrote:

> Hold the Shift key after Post and during boot to get to the Grub menu -
> this is a change from past behaviour where you would press Esc.
>
> In any case, that should get you to a Grub menu where you can choose to
> enter Recovery Mode, check for broken packages, etc. If yoy can't get to
> that menu you may have a Grub problem.
>
> -d
>
> On 2011-04-02, at 3:51 PM, Chris <candive1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I will check these suggestions out on Monday.
> I believe GRUB failed to load on restart.
> Thanks
> Chris.
>
> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:44 PM, bergfly < <bergfly at gmail.com>
> bergfly at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Most bios will post a insert system disk type message if a drive fails
>> so I would rule that out. Did you used to see a grub menu. If so start
>> with a grub repair. On single OS linux boxes you don't always see
>> grub, in which case X has dropped the ball. My experience says this is
>> the most likely. Does ctrl alt F2 produce anything
>>
>>
>> On 4/2/11, Leigh Honeywell < <leigh at hypatia.ca>leigh at hypatia.ca> wrote:
>> > On 11-04-02 08:23 AM, Chris wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >> Yesterday I was _updating_ 3 _Edubuntu_ desktops when I
>> >> allowed_restart_, I saw the bios then the flashing cursor then nothing.
>> >> No HDD activity light, I guess you could call it the _Black Screen Of
>> >> Death_.
>> >> Waited 10 minutes.
>> >> Tried hard restart twice.
>> >> *Anyone else had this problem?*
>> >
>> > That sounds like a couple of harddrive failures... while it's unlikely
>> > that they'd all fail at the same time, it's not unheard of.
>> >
>> > Can you boot any of the computers off a USB stick or CD drive and mount
>> > the internal hard drive to confirm it's not dead?
>> >
>> > -Leigh
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