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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