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I have Ubuntu 14.04 installed on a Lenovo G580 laptop, and I am no longer able to boot it. I tried recovery mode normal boot and failsafeX but it still fails. When I just go through the normal start process, everything seems normal: I see the five dots cycling red-white, then a few lines of text, which the last line is 'Restoring Resolver State' ... and then a blinking cursor.

I also tried to see if I could fix the problem using Ubuntu 14.04 Live disk, but it doesn't recognize the existing install. I am also not able to access the existing files and folders when in Tyy Ubuntu mode. But I can access my files and folders via tty or root from the recovery menu.

Any ideas?

update: solved by by reinstalling 14.04 LTS which preserved /home... See Ubuntu 14.04 boots to black screen after upgrade from 13.10 - no display, problem seems to be X connected & https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuReinstallation for how to reinstall without losing your home folder

Thanks.

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  • You can probably access the files from a USB Linux distro like Slax if you have a spare USB lying around. That way you might be able to save your key files and then do a fresh install. Next time make sure you back up lots! :) – Ads20000 Mar 06 '15 at 17:14

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I found the guidance in this link helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeH28tVaTwo

The basic repair presented is:

  1. Open a virtual console by pressing CTRL+ALT+F2 (I am not using a GUI, so I logged in using PuTTY)
  2. Log in
  3. Execute sudo apt-get -f install
  4. Execute sudo shutdown -r now

Repeat steps 1-4 as as necessary.

You might try interspersing step 3 with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade until you get the desired results

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