Trouble with Ubuntu 9.04

Hi,
Very new to this. I'm having trouble with 9.04 on my AAO and am trying to reboot in safemode to figure it out. I keep getting stopped with the following line:

root@escape:~#

and I don't know what this means or how to proceed. Any advice? Can I/Should I just reload ubuntu from scratch? I had had trouble originally with my wireless connection, among other things, and that's what started this. Is there another version that I should reload instead?

Thanks, ushi

 

try:

Code:

startx

 

Thanks very much!