When switching off my ancient Acer laptop running 14.04LTS today, as normal, it took a while longer and some b&w text flashed up on the screen in a non-desktop environment. Strange, thought I. I wasn't able to read the text unfortunately.
Anyhoo, now it won't power up. The power and battery lights illuminate, the optical drive whirrs, but otherwise nada. The screen is blank and it just sits there doing nothing.
First of all, any ideas what might have happened?
Secondly, how might this clueless Ubuntu user do something about it?
Thirdly, if it's totally borked, what chance do I have of retrieving stuff from the SSD?
TIA