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So I installed Ubuntu 13.10 as the primary OS on my laptop. I installed Windows 8 in another partition and set up GRUB to be the boot loader. Eventually I updated Windows and it became a black screen so I reinstalled Windows in that partition. Somehow doing this removed Windows from GRUB's menu and so I tried to reinstall GRUB which I had a little trouble doing. I tried it a few different ways, one of them was booting from a LiveCD and involved mounting and unmounting things (did this pretty much blindly as I don't have a lot of the know how). That didn't work but I came across the standard boot-repair program and it worked fine.

The big problem I have no is that Ubuntu does not load after selecting it from GRUB. It just hangs at a black screen. When I select recovery mode, it goes to the menu. When I resume the normal boot, it reads out:

Ubuntu 13.10 Denjay-Laptop tty1

Denjay-Laptop login:_

With a flashing underscore. After a few seconds it then adds to that line initct1: Event failed

I also checked all the file systems with the recovery mode and with a LiveCD and nothing was anomalous on that end. I've also gone through updating GRUB so I think something wrong post-GRUB if that makes sense.

I heard that it might be a video card problem so I tried nomodeset which still resulted in a black screen. One user had too many drivers installed on their card and they input dpkg --get-selections nvidia-* to show their drivers. My laptop has "amd a8 3520m apu with radeon tm hd graphics" and I'm not sure what the driver package name for that is. So what should I replace nvidia with for to get the driver?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Denjay
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  • Try `lspci -nnk | grep -i vga -A3 | grep 'in use'` (http://askubuntu.com/questions/23238/how-can-i-find-what-video-driver-is-in-use-on-my-system) – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 21:56
  • That returned `Kernel driver in use: fglrx_pci` – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:26
  • So try `dpkg --get-selections flgrx*` – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:30
  • And that returned `fglrx` `deinstall`; `fglrx-amdcccle-updates` `install`; `fglrx-updates` `install` – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:34
  • Try following the answer here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/78906/ati-amd-proprietary-fglrx-graphics-install-fails-how-can-i-resolve-the-problem – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:46
  • Should I be able to do all that from the root shell in recovery mode? I tried `sudo apt-get install fglrx-updates fglrx-amdccle-updates` and that returned `W: Not using locking for read only file /var/lib/dpkg/lock` and `E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/` and `E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.` – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 22:54
  • What happens if you try to run those update packages you listed before? – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 22:55
  • Sorry, not sure how to run those. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 23:01
  • Just type `fglrx-updates install` – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 23:02
  • `fglrx-updates: command not found` Just for clarification, when I entered `dpkg --get-selections flgrx*` it returned each of those `fglrx...` on the left side of the screen and then `install` on the right side. They were listed on the same line but opposite sides of the screen. – Denjay Jan 02 '14 at 23:05
  • Hmm... okay, I'm not sure. Sorry – jeremy Jan 02 '14 at 23:07

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