Tuesday, October 10, 2017

10.10 - Black screen and blinking cursor on boot








I'm having trouble booting into Ubuntu 10.10 on my laptop. When I turn it on, I get the BIOS menu and then nothing but a black screen with a blinking text cursor at the top. I was able to boot from the CD, but can't my system back up. Any ideas?



I don't see anything at all except for the BIOS splash. I don't have a grub menu, but if I hold down shift while rebooting, when I let go, "GRUB" appears at the top left corner, but then nothing happens.



It's a System76 Pangolin laptop



   Display Resolution 15.6" HD+ LED Display with Super Glossy Surface (1600 x 900)
Graphics ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 Graphics with 512MB GDDR2 Memory
Hard Drive 320 GB 7200 RPM SATA II
Memory 4 GB – DDR3 1066 MHZ 2 DIMMs

Optical Drive CD-RW / DVD-RW
Processor Core i7-620M Processor ( 32nm, 4MB L3 Cache, 2.66GHz / 3.33GHz Turbo Mode )
Wireless 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN Module

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