Sounds much like my weekend rebuilding
my desktop after ati/amd graphics driver upgrade apparently broke
irrevocably my ability to boot with debian in the initrd. Even
single-user would crash prior to boot. :\
Oddly I found a live-cd of mint, fedora, or ubuntu would work ok
happily outputting across my 6 displays (with glx), but using the
open-source radeon driver after install I'd install/reboot to get
that black screen effect, seemingly crashing the kernel behind
it. Lots of reports of "black screen radeon", not much how to fix
it that worked for me. I later realized the intel graphics would
take over, even though probing the radeon, and really just annoyed
me as it works great in a live cd, but couldn't get anything else
to work properly beyond.
Probably similar what you're seeing if you have an integrated
graphics and/or external video card. Blacklisting the offender
might work, but seems odd I don't have this issue once the
proprietary amd blob is loaded.
Side note - after cursing lmde for a few days, and finding fedora
install as broken as ubuntu/mint installers for raid/lvm setups, I
tried a netinstall of ubuntu 14.04 which surprisingly did NOT suck
like even their server iso's missing disk setup features. Try
that with a text install, and just "apt-get install
ubuntu-desktop" after.
Is it just me, or are all linux installers basketcases these
days? Seems not...
-mb
On 10/06/2014 12:15 AM, Mark Jarvis wrote:
For those of you old enough to
remember the Li'l Abner comic strip, I'm beginning to
feel like Joe Btfsplk, the hard luck character who had a small,
dark, rain cloud perpetually hovering over his head.
I downloaded the latest 64 bit Ubuntu ISO and burned the image to
disk. Booting from the DVD, it appeared to start, then went to a
blank screen with a small icon at the bottom. After 5 or 6
minutes, I got tired of waiting and pushed the power button.
Skipping some of the trials, it had apparently altered the boot
order in setup to boot from the CD/DVD drive if there was
something in it--not that I mind, I prefer that. anyway. If the
DVD was in the drive it would boot from it and display some text
options. One of the options said (approximately) run Ubuntu
without installing. I selected that option and pressed enter as
instructed. Blank screen time.
I have an HP box with a Samsung Monitor (1920 x 1080).
First Knoppix, then Ubuntu. These used to be my sure fire, never
fail distros.
FWIW, an old Ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit) CD loads & works fine in
live CD mode.
I'd sure like to know what the problem is. Any suggestions
gratefully accepted.
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