[NBLUG/talk] Problems booting Ubuntu 10.04

[Mike Rice]

I'd look at a hardware problem, perhaps the hard drive or power supply?
If you can successfully boot from a CD or floppy or USB you can run some
tests on the HDD. A failing P/S can lead to some interesting issues,
mimicking HDD failure.

On 06/03/2010 11:16 PM, Steve Bursch wrote:
> I have a machine on which I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04.  After
> installing, I applied all of the outstanding maintenance.  The machine
> booted successfully once after that.  Now, the machine fails to boot
> every time.  With previous versions of Ubuntu, I've had similar
> problems, and the fix was to add "rootdelay=130" to the kernel entry
> in the grub menu.  Unfortunately, the grub menu no longer appears;
> pressing the ESC key has no effect.
>
> Any words of advice someone can share about how I can approach solving
> this problem?  Can I boot from my installation CD and edit the
> menu.lst file that exists on the hard drive?
>
> Thanks in advance....Steve