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.