Comment 1 for bug 996454

I have had similar difficulties with 12.04 LTS Recovery mode;

Check all disks appeared to work but reported nothing, but at least it did not hang more than 60 secs.

Safe mode low-res hangs but Ctrl+c gives a black screen followed by the Unity GUI login screen in Hi-res.

Drop to Root terminal requests a Root Password, which has not been set, and will not accept the normal user login/sudo password. The alternative requested, 'Ctrl+d' returned to the recovery menu making the use of this boot option pointless and unproductive.

May 8th 2012. bogan Alan Pfeil.