Ubuntu Natty Narwal GRUB broken.

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I’ve had Ubuntu on my Mac since 10.10, and it worked perfectly. However, when I updated to Natty Narwal, it prompted me to update the GRUB. I selected “No” because it notified me that the GRUB was modified. I successfully competed the update.

Upon first boot, selecting the normal 11.04 Ubuntu to boot into did nothing, it wouldn’t boot. So I went into “Older versions of Ubuntu” hoping to do a clean up with 10.10, but noticed 11.04 was in there too. So I selected it and successfully booted up through this supposed older version of Ubuntu.

I attempted to fix this by manually updating the GRUB. The update was successful, but did not solve the problem.

I use rEFIt to select OS X or Linux upon boot up, could this be conflicting?
 

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I use rEFIt to select OS X or Linux upon boot up, could this be conflicting?

I can't tell you if it is or isn't but you can check rather easily. Turn off the rEFIt "blessing" and hold down the OPTION key when booting. Select Ubuntu and see what happens.

Turn off the "blessing" by going to: MacIntosh Hd/EFI and rename it to MacIntosh HD/EFI_save. Reboot.
 
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This did not solve the issue. Still will not boot from main GRUB menu.

I would still like support from this forum, but I’m going to go check out the Ubuntu support forums.
 

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When you say that GRUB doesn't start the Ubuntu boot process, do you get any sort of error message? What exactly happens when you try to boot into 11.04?
 
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The normal purple screen pops up, with an out-of-resolution Ubuntu logo on top, and the normal 5 dots that indicate loading. They however, do not do anything, and just stay orange instead of white.

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Push Alt-F2 (you may also have to push function at the same time) to enter verbose mode during boot. This will show you what's going on and hopefully print back something that gives you an indication of what's going wrong.
 
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I will report back with any errors it gives me.
 
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So it brings me into Verbose mode, and asks me to login. I login and then it tells me it was successful. However, then it just leaves an empty command line which I could type into for days. What next?
 

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If you get a command prompt, it would seem that there is nothing wrong with the OS but with the X server instead. Push Ctrl-Alt-F7 to get to the seventh virtual terminal. This is where X will run (the user interface). Any error messages here?
 

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