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GNU GRUB SCREEN ONLY no responce

Asked by Rich.b

Dell 2400 Dimension 1GB Ram OS Ubuntu 12.04

As the PC was starting & before log in I press start button again & PC when off.
Re-started PC and had options on screen below.

GNU GRUB VER 1.99-21 ubuntu29

With option to press ESC, Safe Mode , Memory etc.

I did Memory test which PASSED OK.

Tried ESC to re-boot but this did not work, switch off PC by holding in start button.

I was presented with GNU GRUB VER 1.99-21 ubuntu29 screen again and there was no
response to any keys.

Please help

Thank you

Richard

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Edmond Condillac (econ22) said : 		#1

Try boot-repair, if possible.

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#2

Thanks Edmond, how is that done?

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#3

As both F2 and F12 do not respond at start up what can I do?

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Rich.b (aybi30) said : 		#4

Well silly me, I moved PC to add some sound proofing and had pulled on the keyboard plug out a little.

Thank you Yancek, (on LinuxQuestions) I hope I will notice that the next time.....! ?

Put it down to 'very Senior moment' over 70

Richard

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Edmond Condillac (econ22) said : 		#5

Hi Rich

please forgive me for the delay in responding to your above query about boot-repair. The advice that I was give previously by NikTh regarding trying boot-repair is as follows:

Boot again from the Live CD and try this tool
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair#A2nd_option_:_install_Boot-Repair_in_Ubuntu
but I think it has to be a Live CD/USB with a supported Ubuntu version. 11.10 has reached EOL. (End Of Life)
Alternatively you can download an .iso that includes this tool by default.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1831869
Do not forget to give to Launchpad support the link (URL) that this tool will create (in case the problem not solved).