can't reboot in recovery mode

[Rocko]

Binary package hint: grub2

I can't reboot any more into recovery mode. When I try, I get the initial two lines of text indicating that the system is booting into a kernel, and after a pause the disk starts reading, but no further text is ever displayed.

I can't reboot into either karmic or jaunty's recovery mode, so this is a pretty critical problem.

I'm using karmic's grub2 bootloader and I've set grub2 to show a 1024x768 resolution screen.

Presumably this might be related to the framebuffer problems in karmic (see bugs #447765 and #428519).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: 1bd8e90541d49b96c13cbfcc9baf103b
CheckboxSystem: d00f84de8a555815fa1c4660280da308
Date: Wed Oct 14 08:56:14 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: grub2 1.97~beta3-1ubuntu8
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: grub2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-02063103-generic x86_64

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

The menu entry for my main machine, which still fails to boot into recovery mode is:

menuentry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-14-generic (recovery mode)" {
        recordfail=1
        save_env recordfail
 insmod ext2
 set root=(hd0,2)
 search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 04dd136a-dd4b-418d-be41-813ceb63d3f4
 linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=04dd136a-dd4b-418d-be41-813ceb63d3f4 ro single gfxpayload=true
 initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
}

Note: My test karmic Virtual Machine *can* boot into recovery mode, but when I select 'resume', it drops to a login prompt (tty1) instead of starting X.

[achevrier (a-chevrier-pro)]

Hi,
I'm DELL VOSTRO 1510 user, and Lucid Lynx LTS.
When I want to boot on recovery mode from grub menu, choosing "Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS, kernel 2.6.32-26-generic (recovery mode)" in the grub menu, the recovery mode starts and goes to the blue box menu asking for type of Ubuntu start. I select the normal start and finally that "drops to a login prompt (tty1 - I enter my login and my pwd) instead of starting X.". Then the machine is blocked, X does not start, nothing happens.

[Rocko (rockorequin)]

This seems to be standard behaviour now for recovery mode. Assuming things aren't broken, you should be able to start X with the command "sudo start gdm" once you have logged into the tty session.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

Karmic has reached end of life, are you able to reproduce this on a currently supported release?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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