Take the tour ×  I was recently trying to update my laptop
running on 11.10 to 12.04 in update manager and in the middle of
the update, my update froze. So I waited for an hour before I
decided to restart my computer. When I restarted it, it had a
black, not a purple, screen that kept flashing and I cant do
anything. There is absolutely no gui interface and I cant do
anything. Does anyone know how I can fix this? I have a disk
with Ubuntu 11.10 on it. I don't any files cause I have a
backup, I just need the computer working. Can you please help me
fix this? Thanks!  share|improve this question Do you get a grub
interface immediately after the BIOS does its things? Can you
edit the kernel command line? If you edit it to add single, do
you get a usable shell? –  sarnold Jun 8 '12 at 23:29 I dont
know what a grub interface is, but all I see is a black screen
that keeps flashing and there is no terminal –  Shalin Shah Jun
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