How do you get 16.04 to boot?

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 1 Jul 2017 18:40:27 -0400, Dick Dowdell wrote:
>I've been a professional software developer for over 40 years and I
>frequently examine problematic boot drives from another bootable
>system. Your advice is very much appreciated, but you might be a
>little less abrasive in your comments on other's efforts to help..

My apologies,

but IMO
https://askubuntu.com/questions/763638/no-more-boot-logging-since-16-04
is a disgusting guide how to start the troubleshooting. Actually taking
a look at the messages we get from the bootloader and/or startup
process is the first thing to do, respl. if there should be no messages
at all, perhaps even not a BIOS message, than following Karl's hints
should be done.

A log file could be very long and contain information that is even
confusing for experienced users. The startup messages often are a clear
pointer. Sometimes the messages show that a service fails to start again
and again. Those messages are not necessarily the last messages before
the system hangs, so they are not necessarily that easy to recognise
when checking log files.

Regards,
Ralf