ubuntu 10.04 will not boot

[Podengo]

I had had ubuntu 8.04 humming along for almost two years on my dell d610 laptop. Last night, continuing to this morning I followed the upgrade instructions.

After many hours and about a half-dozen 'default' responses .. it asked me to restart. I did, and after about 5 minutes of seeing the word Ubuntu displayed and 5 dots, with a red light in sequence aomong the dots... I hit ctrl-alt F1. I have a two-screen system, with an external monitor set up..

On both screens a one line message is burning in:

init: cryptdiskcs-enable main proces (765) killed by TERM signal.

Nothing is changing on my system except every 5 minutes or so both screens go blank until I hit a shift key, causing both screens to redisplay that message.

[Podengo (robertvphillips)]

I tried to upgrade to ubuntu 10.04 - I neglected to say. I expected the system to boot.

Now I have much data on my laptop that I cannot access, and I do not know whether I can use the cd install of DESKTOP ubuntu 10.04 without trashing all of my data.

 Is there a way I could do that?

[Podengo (robertvphillips)]

The upgrade directions I used to upgrade from 8.04 were those posted on 3/25/2010 on: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/beta1#Upgrading%20from%20Ubuntu%209.10%20or%20Ubuntu%208.04%20LTS

[Sebastian Bator (eremit7)]

You should be able to boot from a Desktop CD and access your harddisk and backup your data. But do not install!

For help requests you will get faster help on http://ubuntuforums.org/, this is more a development platform.

In order to determine if this issue is usplash related, please boot your computer with usplash disabled to see if you can reproduce the issue? To disable usplash for a single boot, follow these steps:

1. Press Esc during Grub boot delay to access the boot menu.
2. Select your actual Ubuntu boot line and press "e" to edit it.
3. Select the "kernel" line and press "e" to edit it.
4. At the end of the line, remove "splash" and "quiet" and press "enter".
5. Type "b" to boot the custom boot line.

Please report any errors that are shown on the screen.

[Sebastian Bator (eremit7)]

I am sorry I posted the wrong instructions, here are the instructions for lucid, follow these instead the above.

1. Press Esc during Grub boot delay to access the boot menu.
2. Select your actual Ubuntu boot line and press "e" to edit it.
3. Select the "linux" line and at the end of the line, remove "splash" and "quiet".
5. Type "ctrl + x" to boot the custom boot line.

[k.sanmugasundaram (k-sanmugam2)]

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