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I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, I was using Steam last night when my computer froze up. Had to do a hard reset, since then I cannot get it to boot.

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Can't get to bios menu Can't get to grub menu Can't get to startup settings

No matter what I try to select on boot, it goes to purple screen like it's loading Ubuntu, then flickers like an old tube TV, then black screens. Left it on for about 6 hours to see if it was loading something, but it never came back up.

Lorenz Keel
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From the comments...

We couldn't access the BIOS menu, or the BOOT menu, or the GRUB screen. We reset the PMU (power management unit) by removing the motherboard battery, and now we can get to the BIOS and BOOT menus, and we're going to now boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB and do the following...

Lets check your Ubuntu file system...

In terminal...

  • boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB
  • open a terminal window
  • type sudo fdisk -l
  • identify the /dev/XXXX device name for your "Linux Filesystem"
  • type sudo fsck -f /dev/XXXX # replacing XXXX with the number you found earlier
  • repeat the fsck command if there were errors
  • type reboot

Update #1:

The computer is booting fine now.

heynnema
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