Could be duff hardware... I now get this:- GRUB loading. Welcome to GRUB!
Entering rescue mode... error: biosdisk read error grub rescue> help Unknown command 'help' Try 'help' for usage grub rescue> and... [ 5.204305] ata2.01: configured for UDMA/66 [ 5.204316] ata2: EH complete [ 5.205803] ata2.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0 [ 5.205809] ata2.00: BMDMA stat 0x65 [ 5.205823] ata2.00: cmd c8/00:20:3f:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 16384 in [ 5.205826] res 51/44:20:3f:00:00/00:00:00:00:00/e0 Emask 0x9 (media error) [ 5.205833] ata2.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [ 5.205838] ata2.00: error: { UNC ABRT } -- [karmic] long boot time on eee 900 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/387272 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs