jful_23

Hey,

My dell intel centrino laptop which i have linux ubuntu hardy heron installed on, takes forever to boot, most of the time it just doesn't boot, (black screen). Please, if anyone could assist me that would be great. I will be glad to answer any more questions regarding my system settings or anything else.

Thanks,
J

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wmorri

Do u get any error messages when you start up? When it does load, does everything work the way it is suppose to. I.E. there isn't any lag or stuff like that.

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dragonember

that distro does boot slow, all in all ubuntu 8.04 was very unimpressive in my opinion. do you have compiz fusion enabled by any chance? Also, I noticed that partition started corrupting itself and it caused it to boot slow because it forced a check every time it started up until I ran fsck to fix the problem. That actually happens (the black screen thing) on fedora9 every once in a while. I have no idea what causes it and I just restart the computer a couple times and it works. However, I suspect it is caused by a partially malfunctioning graphics driver.

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jful_23

The problem is it usually doesn't boot at all, no splash screen nothing, just a black screen, and I let it sit for a while a couple nights ago, about an hour and it was still a black screen. I have tried rebooting a few times, but nothing seems to work. Can anyone help me fix this problem? I agree with you, i think it is probably graphics card related.

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acd0

can you post the output of dmesg?
also try compiling a custom kernel and comment out EVERYTHING you dont need.

jful_23

I'm not really sure how to do that, could you please give me some instructions?

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qbawl

Have you tried to booting into Recovery mode? If not, try it (the next time the machine does boot), and give "Repair Broken packages" or "Try to fix X server" a shot.

I've never had any real problems with 8.04, so am a little surprised at your situation. Is Ubuntu dual-booted on your machine? If yours is an Ubuntu only machine, it might be easier to simply reinstall the system. Maybe with a new disk? It's possible you didn't get a good burn from the ISO. I recently had just such an issue with a copy of Suse. A second copy worked fine, and Suse is now dual-booted with Ubuntu on my tired, beatup eMachines desktop and both boot and function well.


Go to Applications > Accessories >Terminal, at the cursor type: dmesg. Copy and paste the results.