[ubuntu-uk] Acer Ferrari One - First Hurdle Failure

[Bruno Girin]

On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:51 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 30 April 2010 11:48, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
> >> On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
> >> >> Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system,
> >> >> only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card
> >> >> works on 9.10.
> >> >>
> >> >> Kris Douglas,
> >> >
> >> > Kris,
> >> >
> >> > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press
> >> > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the
> >> > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without
> >> > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console.
> >> > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message.
> >> >
> >> > Another thing you can do if you have another computer lying around is
> >> > enable netconsole[2] so that it sends the full boot log to the other
> >> > computer.
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2
> >> > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Netconsole
> >> >
> >> > Bruno
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> Sent from my HTC Hero
> >> >>
> >> >> > On Apr 30, 2010 6:45 AM, "Markie" <mark.curtis.1970 at googlemail.com>
> >> >> > wrote:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Hi,
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > > Then the machine froze on that  loading screen with the mouse on >
> >> >> > display, immobile. I couldn't e...
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then
> >> >> > access /var/log to take a look in the logs. The Xorg logs may have
> >> >> > something, personally I dont understand those logs much myself, but
> >> >> > someone on here or the ubuntuforums will be able to help.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Also running "sudo lshw" will give useful output on hardware if you
> >> >> > get to the command line.
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > > > I wish I could give you more information, but I honestly can't,
> >> >> > that > is all that happens. No e...
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Try searching the ubuntu forums for this card if you think its the
> >> >> > graphics. Can you try booting and running from a Live CD? How does
> >> >> > that work?
> >>
> >> Hello, I don't have a bootable CDROM, but I have tried a live USB
> >> boot, and It doesn't work, literally exactly the same problem of the
> >> repeating bootup music.
> >
> > Did you try to boot after removing 'quiet splash' to see if you had any
> > meaningful error message? Here are the details of how to do that:
> >
> > When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu, then press
> > 'e' to edit the first line, remove 'quiet splash' at the end of the
> > penultimate line and press CTRL-x to boot[1]. It should now boot without
> > the logo and should also display a lot of things on the console.
> > Hopefully the last thing it displays will be a meaningful error message.
> 
> Yes sorry, that was the only thing I got when using quietboot, doesn't
> seem to have any errors. I don't have another machine at my disposal
> to use to do the network log dump.

OK, if you know it worked with Karmic, can you boot Karmic using a live
USB? If that works, you should be able to mount the Lucid partition and
get the logs.

Bruno