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Michael
Asked: 2014-03-05 03:37:33 +0800 CST

Can not boot ubuntu

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I made a boot-repair from terminal, and set the pre installed windows 8 to sda2, and afterwards when I start ubuntu the screen looked funny, and then I used recovery from the start, and now every time I boot ubuntu it's comes whit shell where I can type in user name and password, and my problem is what to type in at the shell root so I can use ubuntu again, I also tried an USB stick whit ubuntu but still can come to ubuntu.

Thanks.

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1 Answers

  1. It seems that you are going into shell by default now. You need to reboot, press Shift for a second, then select advanced recovery mode. After that, go to root user and enter the command below:

    mount -rw -o remount /
sudo passwd root

    Then enter the new password for root and type the command below:

    startx

    Desktop window will work again.

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