#Unable to reboot new Ubuntu 22.04.2 install

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lapis widget
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Hi! I've been hitting nothing but dead ends with Google, I would really appreciate some help with this.

OS: Ubuntu 22.04.2

Hardware: 2013 Mac Pro? Not sure about the exact specifications.

Error and Logs: "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator." No logout button or anything else on the screen.

What Is Happening: I have an old Mac Pro that I wanted to repurpose for gaming. I flashed an Ubuntu 22.04.2 image onto a drive, and then wiped the computer and installed Linux. The initial boot went well, and I was hacking away installing programs and drivers. Eventually, I rebooted after installing some GPU drivers. I was met with the dreaded "Oh no! Something has gone wrong. A problem has occurred and the system can't recover. Please contact a system administrator."

What I am doing: The above happens upon every uninterrupted boot.

  1. Trying to open a terminal from the screen of death with Ctrl-Alt-F3 or various other combos leads to a black screen with a blinking cursor, that is totally unresponsive. The only way out of this has been a manual restart.
  2. Holding shift on startup to access boot options hasn't worked, though I might be doing it wrong.
  3. I am able to access the grub> command line by spamming ESC. Online, I found instructions on how to boot from there. Unfortunately, this involves a command of the form linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.13.0-29-generic root=/dev/sda1 to set the kernel location. My /dev/ folder contains nothing with the name sdaX as the guide says it should. Any attempts to workaround result in some sort of kernel panic.

I am unable to access any other part of the system.

Thank you for reading!

golden pebble
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sda1 is kind of a placeholder there. You replace it with the appropriate connector type and partition number instead.

sda1 is otherwise for SCSI/SATA/USB devices, the very one detected a in sda1 and the first partition on that first detected storage device, being 1

lapis widget
golden pebble
lapis widget
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I should also add that I somehow managed to access recovery mode but I’m not sure what I can do with that

golden pebble
lapis widget
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I’m gonna keep track of what I do to see if I can figure out what point I introduced the element thag caused the crash

lapis widget
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Alright it happened again, it seems to happen whenever I try to install amd gpu drivers

golden pebble
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Those AMD GPU drivers are probably not suitable for your hardware. There's not enough information as to which driver or exactly what configuration is required to make it work.

lapis widget
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Yep that seems to be the case 🫡