Xubuntu not booting

MotherMayI · 29 May 2008 at 23:51

I had been using Xubuntu as my main OS for a few months, and then AoC was released so my hand was forced to install a new Windows partition.

I decided to take the opportunity for a bit of a clean up, so backed up all my data and reformatted the HDD in to three partitions:
#1 - Vista NTFS
#2 - Main (All my data, music, games etc) NTFS
#3 - Xubuntu Ext3

All is working fine, with the exception of a strange problem I seem to be getting when I try and boot Xubuntu sometimes. When it starts to boot it gets to the initial loading bar screen and just stays on it for eternity, then shuts down. If I try and boot it in recovery mode it generally boots in to the OS fine. Vista is working as intended.

Does anybody have any ideas what could be causing it? I went in to detail about my partition set up as I assume it is some kind of HDD/Partitioning error, but not sure how to investigate further.

MotherMayI · 30 May 2008 at 00:10

I tried F1 with no joy, didn't know about the grub parameters - I'll give it a go, cheers.

MotherMayI · 30 May 2008 at 00:41

Right, well I just restarted and used the recovery console to find out where it was hanging. The error it hangs on is:

Code:

usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
/build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID CORE
ata4.00: qc timeout (cmd 0x27)
ata4.00: failed to read native max address (err_mask=0x4)

The system then goes in to what seems an endless loop trying to reset 'EH' or something similiar.

MotherMayI · 30 May 2008 at 02:06

Thanks a lot, will give it a go.