Ubuntu 9.10 Not Starting Graphic

Aahhooyyy!!

Today, 29 January 2010, My CPU fainted...

Yeah... fainted... seemed dead but had just blacked out...

Around 10 A.M. today I'd updated the system automatically.

After rebooting the computer it didn't come back...

The Ubuntu logo showed up and after a few seconds it had blacked out...

Nothing running just a black screen and my heart pumping hard...


MY SOLUTION

- Get a Linux boot CD (Fedora 11 it was the first in hand)
- Start in RESCUE mode
- Start in terminal mode (command line)
- Type in

chroot /mnt/sysimage

to mount your system instead of CD
- Get grub to show your kernel options commenting the 'hiddenmenu' line and extending the menu timeout

sudo vi /boot/grub/menu.lst
...
timeout 10
#hiddenmenu
..

With that you are ready to start Ubuntu in another Kernel update

Restart your system without the boot CD

You will see now a list of Kernel to choose from.

Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic
Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode)
Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic (recovery mode)

What happened then I cannot explain, yet. Maybe on another post but my steps sequence were:

- My first choice were Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-16-generic
- The system came up and I restarted
- The I chose Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic (recovery mode)
- I't entered on terminal mode, I logged in and entered 'startx'
- The system came up OK again and I restarted
- I choose then the last update: Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-17-generic
- The system came up OK and I'm writing you right now what happened.

I know I didn't explain what the problem was and a perfect solution, but it gave me back my system as it were.

I can now get back to work as I never had a Problem.

Abraaaço!!