Recently, I reinstalled Ubuntu as it was just, not happy. I noticed that Ubuntu had updated from 12.04 to 13.something, I can't recall.
Once booting, I immediately noticed a change. In 12, it automatically gave me an account with my name, where I put in my password.
In 13, however, it gives me a login, where I put in my username, then my password. That's fine, I can do that.
Except, there seems to be a problem. From what I can tell, Ubuntu seems to have forgotten to make a default administrator account.
At least, that's my understanding of the situation. I logged in with guest session and went to accounts, and it seemed that the only account there was, was the guest session.
After some searching, I came across various fixes. I had planned to go into recovery and use the following commands:
Useradd username -m -s /bin/bash Passwd username Adduser username sudo
Or at least
ls /home
To check if there really was an admin account.
The issue is, holding left shift to go to the boot menu.
When I select Ubuntu from the bootloader, I have tried numerous times with different timings to hold "shift", but the issue is, instead of bringing up this lovely little screen:
https://i.stack.imgur.com/76OWe.png
I get a bare, black screen, with a underscore flashing at the top left corner. It does that for several moments and then the OS crashes, and I have to press the on button again.
If I can get to the boot menu, I think I'm golden.
I couldn't find anything else on this, so excuse me if I missed out.
All best, thanks in advance.