On Friday 14 February 2014 06:28:23 you wrote: > said Michael Howard: > | > in december i built a new machine, which has nvidia graphics > | > instead of the previous ATI. moving the drives over went smoothly > | > enough, but booting is peculiar: if i just boot from the grub2 > | > screen, it goes along for a bit and then locks solid before > | > getting fully booted. if, however, i choose to boot in repair > | > mode, which oddly goes into framebuffer and then produces a > | > normal text-based screen of choices and select "boot normally," > | > it boots . . . normally. > | > | You don't say what OS or Version but I would take a look at the > | grub command line to she exactly how it's booting. It sounds like > | the original command line from your previous install. It needs > | tweaking by the sounds of things. > > a debian-derivative -- ubuntu or kubuntu, don't remember which -- > 12.04 LTS, 64-bit. > > and yes, i agree it needs tweaking -- just don't know the tweaks. the > whole frame buffer thing is a little nutty to me. could have dealt > with it in lilo, but i do not know grub or grub2 at all well. investigate rebuilding your initrd.img, it may have the wrong video drivers. -- Peace, Greg