A quick update. I upgraded to 11.04, and, with some trepidation, said to install the default grub loader when the install offered to preserve the loader with pci=nocrs. I'm pleased (but not really...
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A quick update. I upgraded to 11.04, and, with some trepidation, said to install the default grub loader when the install offered to preserve the loader with pci=nocrs. I'm pleased (but not really...
Another satisfied customer of the proposed pci=nocrs workaround! For those (like me) who aren't familiar with grub tampering, here's what I did to make the change automatic:
sudo cp...
Same system (Dell Precision T3500), same problem (can't boot new kernel after an upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10), same symptoms (ALERT about /dev/disk/by-uuid/... does not exist).
Here's a little more...
Did you hear the ubuntu login "music" even though the screen was dead? If so, you may be having trouble with the default nvidia drivers, like I was having. I couldn't get my DVI or HDMI connections...
I experienced a similar problem during numerous adventures with the install DVD. Both my mouse and keyboard are connected via USB. When I plugged in a serial mouse, I never had any problems with...
I had this happen on an earlier Ubuntu install. Turns out I had replaced my original .profile with one I had been using elsewhere, and there were commands in it that caused login to choke and exit...
Since you mentioned NVIDIA and a blank screen, I had a similar problem. I'd do a grub boot, wait a few seconds, and then my ASUS screen would report NO DVI SIGNAL. I had to do the NVIDIA driver...
My two dell desktops, one 64-bit, one 32-bit, both NVIDIA video cards, got blank screens (but sounds) after the grub boot. I had to install the NVIDIA drivers
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