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I was running Ubuntu 11.10, and upgraded to 12.04. After the system rebooted, it began exhibiting the following behaviour:

1) It loads the BIOS. I can access the BIOS menu, so I can select what piece of hardware the computer boots from if I need to. 2) The screen turns purple. 3) The screen turns black.

Mashing ESC, DEL, etc does nothing after phase 1; in fact, the keyboard and mouse are totally unresponsive. I cannot even turn numlock off and on.

I tried loading from a Super Grub 2 disc, but while it can detect some two dozen kernels, none of them seem to load properly. I am booting from a Live CD now, but I'm not sure how I should go about fixing this.

quindraco
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  • I would try booting to the livecd.. If that works, I would identify the boot partition with sudo fdisk -l , then I would mount it with mount /dev/<boot_part_e.g., sda1> /mnt, then I would run sudo grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/boot /dev/sda , per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 – Shannon_VanWagner May 08 '12 at 16:50
  • Booting from a livecd works fine, sorry I forgot to mention that - in fact, I'm booting from it now. I went ahead and tried installing grub as you suggested, going to reboot now. Fingers crossed. – quindraco May 08 '12 at 16:59
  • Tested thoroughly; doing this appears to have had absolutely no impact whatsoever. Behavior is 100% identical to before I reinstalled grub. – quindraco May 08 '12 at 17:15
  • That's great that the LiveCD works.. Ok, so I'm thinking it might be either the initrd.img or a needed kernel parameter. To test for the initrd.img, I would copy one over from the 11.10 installation into the /boot directory and rename it to whatever the current one is (rename the current one with .old or something first to back it up). http://goo.gl/Fhx9m As for the kernel paramaters, there are a few ways to do it but I would chmod 644 the /boot/grub/grub.cfg and put acpi=off, nomodeset, (try each one, and maybe more) at the end of the Linux kernel line. Prob try kern par changes 1st. – Shannon_VanWagner May 08 '12 at 18:37
  • Even i have a similar problem. I installed ubuntu 12.04 using a usb stick and it worked fine. But whenever i start ubuntu the screen goes black the same way as the OP described. But when i start ubuntu using the bootable-usb disk it starts – lovesh May 12 '12 at 10:06
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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! This question should instead be filed as a bug report, and as such is off-topic, thanks! Instructions on filing a bug report are here. – Jorge Castro May 15 '12 at 01:37

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