Just tried to write:
and now it works!!
But for some reason I now have duplicated my Linux options in the bootloader when I startup (two entries of recovery mode and two regular mode which are completely identical!).
Your bootloader shouldn’t have anything to do with the problems you’ve been having here so it would be quite weird, anyway, your bootloader options are most probably in /boot/grub/grub.conf or a file called menu.lst in one of the subdirectories of /boot (can’t remember which right now), open it and check if there are no double entries in there, if there are just remove then and they should be gone 