There's more than a week that I tried to install the program wine 1.4 on my Asus Eee PC and it failed. Since then, all that appears after restarting my mini-laptop is the black screen with a cursor _, or the message:
* Stopping System V runlevel compatibility [ok]
* StartingWhat command should I do to return to my computer?
Thanks!
4 Answers
You can solve your issue using Recovery Mode
Follow these steps:
When your system start chose Recovery Mode (2nd option from Grub Menu). If your system starts automatically without any Grub Menu you may have to hold Shift while booting to get Grub Menu.
When system starts in Recovery Mode go to grub option from the list. Select
yesfor the question asked. It will update grub and exit.Select network from the list to enable Network.
then finally select root in order to login as root.
Once loged in as root execute following commands to fix your issue..
sudo apt-get autoremove wine sudo apt-get --purge remove wine sudo find / | grep wine | grep -v "/var/cache/apt/archives" | sudo xargs rm -r -f sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get autoremove sudo apt-get autoclean sudo apt-get -f install sudo dpkg --configure -a sudo dpkg-reconfigure -aLast command would take some time so wait..
Finally reboot your system.
sudo update-grub && sudo update initramfs -u sudo rebootNote: Since you are loged in by
root,sudowill not be needed..
Reply if something goes wrong.. It should fix your problem..
13You said you installed wine but I noticed you later mentioned Nvidia drivers for your notebook. ("I suppose that on this Eee PC 4G there's no Nvidia card.")
By any chance, were you trying to install graphics drivers using Wine?
I found this information about your Asus. "the Eee PC is a compact and low power sub-notebook. It is based on the Intel 915GM chipset and is powered by a 900MHz Intel Celeron processor."
Your notebook uses Intel Graphics so I suspect you have somehow replaced the correct drivers with a corrupted install of Nvidia drivers.
Since you haven't been able to use your netbook for over a week, I would ask if you have anything on it you want? I f you do not I think you would be better off just doing a fresh install of Ubuntu. Also you need to always find out exactly what hardware you have before trying to install drivers or else you may well be back to the blinking cursor.
4I can't think of how the two are related. This sounds like a graphics driver issue.
Try: Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console. Assuming this works try re-installing your graphics driver. For example if it's an Nvidia card (I doubt an Eee PC has Nvidia) try:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall nvidia-<driver version here>If you need need further help, post the video card installed and Eee PC model. You can determine the card by running:
lspci -v | grep VGAIf you want to install Windows XP or even Windows 7 on your Asus you can do that using a
flash drive.
You need to download a program called Win2Flash. It is very easy to use and it burns XP
or windows 7 to your flash drive so you can boot to it and install in to your notebook.
