Veraster
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I have Ubuntu dual booting on my desktop with Windows 7. One day, Ubuntu screwed up. When I selected to start it at the grub boot menu, it only went to the console and gnome wouldn't start. Typing "startx" only made it go to a blank screen.
So I decided to just uninstall Ubuntu and grub completely since they've been working on it for 7 years and it's still unstable on anything I try to install it on. When I did that, grub refused to let Windows boot. I decided the only way to fix that would be to give Ubuntu another chance and reinstall it.
After reinstalling Ubuntu and installing drivers, I restarted to finish installing updates. Well guess what? A screen came up saying that the system is running in low graphics mode. There are four options which are:
If I select "reconfigure graphics", it doesn't do anything. The ok button press animation runs when I press the ok button but nothing else.
If I select "troubleshoot error", it does the same as above
If I select "exit to console login", it just kicks me out to that damn console. Typing "startx" just freezes the system on a blank screen and I have to pull the plug.
When I choose to boot Ubuntu in recovery mode, there are a lot of hopeful looking options. When I select any of them, a message comes up saying "Continuing will remount your filesystem in read/write mode and mount any other filesystem defined in etc/fstab.
Do you wish to continue?
If I select yes, a console type thing will show up at the bottom. It will say "/dev/sda2: clean, 192210/1289280 files, 1108742/5156864 blocks"
and do nothing else until I pull the power plug.
Does anyone know how I can either fix this and make Ubuntu work normally or get rid of grub and Ubuntu completely so that it boots directly into Windows without me having to choose to start Windows manually?
So I decided to just uninstall Ubuntu and grub completely since they've been working on it for 7 years and it's still unstable on anything I try to install it on. When I did that, grub refused to let Windows boot. I decided the only way to fix that would be to give Ubuntu another chance and reinstall it.
After reinstalling Ubuntu and installing drivers, I restarted to finish installing updates. Well guess what? A screen came up saying that the system is running in low graphics mode. There are four options which are:
- Run in low graphics mode for just one session
- Reconfigure graphics
- troubleshoot error
- exit to console login
If I select "reconfigure graphics", it doesn't do anything. The ok button press animation runs when I press the ok button but nothing else.
If I select "troubleshoot error", it does the same as above
If I select "exit to console login", it just kicks me out to that damn console. Typing "startx" just freezes the system on a blank screen and I have to pull the plug.
When I choose to boot Ubuntu in recovery mode, there are a lot of hopeful looking options. When I select any of them, a message comes up saying "Continuing will remount your filesystem in read/write mode and mount any other filesystem defined in etc/fstab.
Do you wish to continue?
If I select yes, a console type thing will show up at the bottom. It will say "/dev/sda2: clean, 192210/1289280 files, 1108742/5156864 blocks"
and do nothing else until I pull the power plug.
Does anyone know how I can either fix this and make Ubuntu work normally or get rid of grub and Ubuntu completely so that it boots directly into Windows without me having to choose to start Windows manually?
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