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I'm new to Ubuntu so be kind!

I recently installed 13.xx, some months ago. For the most part, there were only a few niggles and I was using Ubuntu fine.

Recently, though, I was asked into an automatic update to 14.04 - since I upgraded, I have developed my problem.

I was asked to restart now or later following an update and chose later, only for the screen to go black. When I try to turn the computer back on, I am now faced with the following screen (apologies for the grandma way of presenting ... I know taking photos of a screen is a cardinal sin!):

http://i.imgur.com/cmWk1PEh.jpg

I read in another thread to press e on this screen, which results in this screen:

http://i.imgur.com/QENcyadh.jpg

I also read that I should then change the ro in one of the lines to rw and press F10. I did this but the screen just goes to purple and does not change.

Am I doing everything wrong?

Thanks for reading and helping out an oldie (but a Linux newbie!) :-)

user.dz
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I see what your problem is. You are pressing e when it comes up with the grub boot loader (that screen that you took a photo of). The key e is to edit the commands to forward to the Operating System when it boots. Based of of the information provided to me, it seems like you need to press the enter / return key instead. If it still will not boot, try a fresh install of it.

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