Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Precise has serious boot problems

Collapse
This topic is closed.
X
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    Precise has serious boot problems

    I recently decided to upgrade my desktop-computer with fresh new hardware. Once done, I figured there was no good reason for me to install the stable 11.10 release with not a lot of time left before 12.04 gets released. So far 12.04 has been one of the best linux experiences I've had so far. Everything "just works" out of the box. I didn't even have to manually install the proprietary drivers for my gpu which I've always had to do before.

    There is one pretty serious caveat though. When booting up, it has become more of a rule than exception that the process is locking up, leaving a blank, black screen and gets stuck there. So far the workaround I'm using is to boot into rescue mode, choose to enable network and than ctrl-c one time and skipping mount-problems. Than it boots up nicely.

    However, this is very annoying since it happens most of the times (something like 7 out 10 times). I'm guessing it something to do with the gpu since it, from what I can tell, seem to lock up when initiating the X-server, but it's really difficult to troubleshoot since I really can't do anything when it happens because I only see a black screen.

    What I've done so far is to add the ubuntu-x-swat repository and updated to the latest gpu-drivers, but problem still occurs. I'm no newbie on linux or Kubuntu in any way (been using Kubuntu since 6.06), but I'm not sure how to proceed here, so could need some guidance.

    System
    Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z/GEN3
    Intel Core i5 2500K 3.3 GHz
    Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 GDDR5

    Running
    Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 x64
    Nvidia Linux Driver 295.33

    Anything else you need to know, just ask.

    #2
    Perhaps this thread (bullet point #2) can shed some light on how to go about troubleshooting the issue.
    ​"Keep it between the ditches"
    K*Digest Blog
    K*Digest on Twitter

    Comment


      #3
      Been tinkering around with this for a while now, but finally got it to boot fine. This worked for me:

      Edit the grub-defaults in a terminal session:
      §sudo nano /etc/default/grub
      Find this line
      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
      Add the option 'nomodeset' between the quotes so it will look like this
      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"
      Now save your changes and exit to command line again. Enter this command to update to your new boot-config
      §sudo update-grub
      Finally, reboot and see if it worked.

      Comment

      Working...
      X