I believe you're right as the recovery mode got me a command line. I had to get it going quickly so I did a reinstall, but this will help in the future.
Thanks again everyone. On Mon, Oct 11, 2021, 12:50 Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > My suspicion is that it is booting, just that the graphics card > (driver) is messed up sufficiently that it's not able to bring up an > image. If you're able to boot from the CD/DVD, you should be able to > change the boot entry to add the keyword 'text' and remove the > gfxmode. If this works to boot it, but you're still having trouble > with seeing the screen at the end of the boot, then it's definitely a > graphics driver issue. > > You might be able to do a recovery install with the DVD, without > erasing the contents of /home. Alternatively, if you've discovered > that the system is indeed booting (but you just can't see it), but you > previously activated SSHD, you should be able to SSH in and backup the > files that you want to see before attempting a reinstall. > > Another approach is to pull the graphics card, connect your monitor to > the built-in graphics adapter, and boot that way. I've found that > some systems will come up that way when the graphics driver is screwed > up after an update. > > On Sun, Oct 10, 2021 at 1:18 PM Michael L <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I have an Ubuntu 20.04 system that's not booting; appears to boot but > stops at a black screen. It was running fine till I ran (delayed) updates; > wasn't able to update for 7 weeks- a Kubuntu 20.04 system took the delayed > updates without problem. > > > > On Fedora it seems I was easily able to roll back to a previous state > with updates gone awry. I believe I did an LVM install, but never fully > configured the whole snapshot thing. > > > > The only "data" to retrieve is Chromium browser bookmarks which I'll > google how to do next. I'm ready to reinstall U20 if necessary, but if > there's an easier way, I'll take it. I want to set up either a Synology > NAS or separate Linux box running NFS to store future snapshots once I get > that process configured. > > > > Thanks in advance (and past) for excellent input. > > M > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXaQ%2BrGbQHN%2BKH5dOBU09R8hf0NMJ1wCVo30dM2e_eSsMg%40mail.gmail.com > . > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CAHPkZcXVba%2B9_9AUsQhQeAXCm7viwu%2BdBabYwqPgXC3Wj_WBGw%40mail.gmail.com > . > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/nlug-talk/CALdmzXY0xyJi2%3DSrpXTS957QZZmxuYVrCz%3D2MP51%2B6coMzjpNA%40mail.gmail.com.
