Ubuntu 12.04 can't boot after hardware support update

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Crunch182,

I'm not familiar with the HWE packages.  Read the link you provided, but I'm still not really clear on what it is for.

From what I understand:
* You have LL 1.0.8 installed and in control of booting (it's root is sda7)
* You have Ubuntu 12.04 installed and that's what you tried installing the HWE package on (root=sda5)
* You have Windows XP installed to sda1

* You can boot into both LL and Win XP normally.
* Can not boot graphically into Ubuntu anymore

I could boot into the non-GUI ttyl version of Ubuntu but am unable to figure how to get into the lovely GUI version I like.

Are you saying that if you pick the Ubuntu choice from the grub menu it boots in non-graphic mode?  Or are you getting to that in some other way?

Can you log in and run commands?  If "yes", log in and run

Code:

startx

or, it might be

Code:

sudo startx

Did that start GUI?



To eliminate the easiest possibility first:  did you run an update to grub after you had installed the HWE in Ubuntu.

*  From within LL 1.0.8 (not Ubuntu), run this:

Code:

sudo update-grub

*  Reboot and pick Ubuntu to see if it made any difference.