Boot issues
OK a little background is necessary. Before I switched to Kubuntu 12.04 the other day (you have no idea how chuffed I was that I could keep using ubuntu without having to avoid Unity DE via gnome-panel) I was having the following problems, which are likely something to do with my new desktop comp. I'd installed Ubuntu 12.04 (via the alt-cd) on it with no problems at all (vista did boot into safe mode, but I wasn't gona use it anyway).
Then when I booted there was no GRUB bootloader menu, the screen went 'blank' (not off, just dark) but eventually popped up with the login screen. The next boot, screen goes blank, then pops up an error page (attachment 1), which mentions the ata disk, so I try twice more, same thing. So I remove that IDE HDD & insert a SATA HDD. Install again and theres a bit of messing about (blank screens, no GRUB at boot), finally login screen. So then I lived with about 1/3 boots giving me a pinkish blank screen, pressing restart button when this happened gave GRUB at the next boot, but then OS either gave pink screen again, brought up a prompt for a while then login, or a call trace error screen. So I avoided restart button, just did hard shutdowns when pink screen freeze occurred.
About 7 days ago I started getting 'internal error' messages, firefox repeatedly crashed, the internal error report program crashed, errors were with apt-get and something to do with perl. I'd had enough, so reinstalled with normal ubuntu iso from usb. This seemed better as I was able to surpass the pink screen by repeatedly hitting the spacebar (most times).
Internal errors then play up again, I discover kubuntu, and install that for my last ubuntu attempt before trying mint or fedora. Works fine, actually shows the loading screen (unlike lubuntu on my laptop :/ ) until the next day it just brings up an error screen during a session.
Now when it loads (if it does, get a grey screen most times) I get a login screen, but then get the background image, the mouse, then just black but with the mouse still functional (& tty1-6). I've run fsck, everythings ok with the disk apparently, oddly get GRUB if I use restart button (or shutdown -r) even tho it's not the alternate iso, which fails to load OS, screen says no input & goes back to BIOS but GRUB will do recovery mode.
It this a hardware issue? BIOS didn't load HDD specs like usual yesterday & was unresponsive.
Any help would be great, would love to not have to buy another comp & continue to use Kubuntu
Error pics - http://imagebin.org/227279 - http://imagebin.org/227280 - http://imagebin.org/227281 - http://imagebin.org/227282 - http://imagebin.org/227283
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Then when I booted there was no GRUB bootloader menu, the screen went 'blank' (not off, just dark) but eventually popped up with the login screen. The next boot, screen goes blank, then pops up an error page (attachment 1), which mentions the ata disk, so I try twice more, same thing. So I remove that IDE HDD & insert a SATA HDD. Install again and theres a bit of messing about (blank screens, no GRUB at boot), finally login screen. So then I lived with about 1/3 boots giving me a pinkish blank screen, pressing restart button when this happened gave GRUB at the next boot, but then OS either gave pink screen again, brought up a prompt for a while then login, or a call trace error screen. So I avoided restart button, just did hard shutdowns when pink screen freeze occurred.
About 7 days ago I started getting 'internal error' messages, firefox repeatedly crashed, the internal error report program crashed, errors were with apt-get and something to do with perl. I'd had enough, so reinstalled with normal ubuntu iso from usb. This seemed better as I was able to surpass the pink screen by repeatedly hitting the spacebar (most times).
Internal errors then play up again, I discover kubuntu, and install that for my last ubuntu attempt before trying mint or fedora. Works fine, actually shows the loading screen (unlike lubuntu on my laptop :/ ) until the next day it just brings up an error screen during a session.
Now when it loads (if it does, get a grey screen most times) I get a login screen, but then get the background image, the mouse, then just black but with the mouse still functional (& tty1-6). I've run fsck, everythings ok with the disk apparently, oddly get GRUB if I use restart button (or shutdown -r) even tho it's not the alternate iso, which fails to load OS, screen says no input & goes back to BIOS but GRUB will do recovery mode.
It this a hardware issue? BIOS didn't load HDD specs like usual yesterday & was unresponsive.
Any help would be great, would love to not have to buy another comp & continue to use Kubuntu
Error pics - http://imagebin.org/227279 - http://imagebin.org/227280 - http://imagebin.org/227281 - http://imagebin.org/227282 - http://imagebin.org/227283
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