Ubuntu 11.04 not loading

fire_munki

fire_munki

fire_munki

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Hi all,
I was trying out some DVD ripping programs yesterday, put the PC into standby now this morning it won't load.
It starts by showing the boot menu to choose what to load, select the normal install and it goes to the purple screen with ubuntu written on it.
From here it goes to a blank screen where the CPU revs up to max and then down. It does this until I power off.

Any ideas how I fix my install? I don't want to format/reinstall cos there are some pics i've not put on the 1TB drive yet. I also don't want to reinstall as that seems a damn inelegant solution without any skill or learning.

I can take a vid if it helps of what it does.
 
I'm sorry budda but what you said went mostly over my head!
The drivers hadn't changed nor had had I changed the kernal recently. The major update was a while ago.
Root shell prompt was one of the option from the recovery menu that loaded from the grub loader.
I've no idea what gdm is or how to fire it up.
I'm a total beginner to Linux.
 
vaguely familar with grub.
But here I'm gonna sound stupid, how on earth do I get it to input the vertical line? Ctrl alt displays ¦ on this XP machine but nothing displays on the linux box.
 
got it, now, anything in particular you want from the results?
Its a lot of writing and copying over will prob involve a spelling mistake.

glxinfo was the shortest and tells me its not installed
 
you sir are a leg-end.
Up and back to my desktop.
Will have a play around.
Anything else need to be done?
Also in the spirit of learning what, if simple to explain, did you get me to do?
 
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