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tutuca
Asked: 2011-05-11 04:24:46 +0800 CST

HP G42 won't boot, halts on recovery session menu

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I have a HP G42. It was working but would randomly halt or restart the X session while running ubuntu 11.04.

Finally, last night, it froze and was not able to boot anymore. It gets stuck in the ubuntu splash screen, an if I choose the recovery mode in grub, it sort of halts in the session selection menu.

I have already run a memtest and it passes without errors.

How to proceed to further debug this issue?

11.04

2 Answers

  1. I had similar issues. In order to get the recovery console working (I had the same issue - recovery menu would come up, but would not react to keyboard input), I had to unplug all my usb devices and add nohz=off acpi=off to my boot line in grub for the recovery mode. These boot parameters might differ for your system. I certainly would give acpi=off a try. That seems to be an issue for many system.

    Once I was successfully in recovery mode, I was able to fix my xserver by renaming the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

    My issue was that I had the proprietary driver from ati installed, but then I used jockey to install the Ubuntu version of the fglrx driver over that. That left my system in an unstable state. Finally, I was able to purge fglrx from my system and installing the open source radeon driver.

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  2. Perhas you should do a check for all proprietary graphics drivers and updates, and if you are using proprietary drivers, perhaps see if there are alternative drivers you could use.

    did you do a wubi install or is ubuntu your only OS? if so, what partition is it installed on? if it is ext4, perhaps as a last resort try reinstalling on an ext3 or 2 partition...

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