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[kubuntu] blank screen of death after install, no console boot

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http://ubuntuforums.org – tl;dr New Asus laptop, LiveUSB works fine, installed distros do not start - blank screen, cannot start in console mode When I do this in the grub edit menu, I get the same results: linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=32939def-1f4a-4134-9b56-bed2319a9216 ro nosplash --verbose text Full History below: From: Y Sent: December-14-12 3:01 PM To: RAMSESray Subject: Re: Purple Screen after boot-repair sorry, i have no more idea. please ask on ubuntuforums.org 2012/12/14 RAMSESray Y, I end up with a catch 22 situation. -I disable Secure Boot, no problem - (Hardware)

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I got a new laptop (Asus K55A) and I am trying to dual boot ubuntu along with windows 7 (boots into UEFI mode and has GPT partition). I finished installation from a LiveCD. I was able to use ubuntu from LiveCD for most common applications, video/graphics/audio/wireless/touchpad all seemed to work fine. When I start my computer, I see the grub menu with ubuntu and windows option.

I tried the live boot CD and boot-repair, also loaded the Desktop install CD, and it looks like all partitions check out OK. However, when I try to boot Linux (the only bootable partition on the computer) I get a blank screen.

Every so often the screen give me something akin to: Assuming write through cache Asking for cache data failed

it appears to start booting, then hangs.

I am installing Arch on an old Dell laptop with a NV11 GeForce2 video chipset. Although adding "nomodeset" to the kernel pararmeters line works fine when I boot from the Arch install CD, I can not get a console or anything else when I boot from the new install.

I have installed ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop. I also have win 7. the thing is I can only boot into both when I change graphics settings in the BIOS menu and I have to make it integrated. If I have it on switchable, when I try and boot into ubuntu, it shows a purple blank screen for a little while then screen goes blank. If I change it to integrated, I can boot into ubuntu fine and everything works.

laptop is Inspiron 7010 ubuntu verson 12.10 I did the boot-recovery from my 10.04 live CD The next 5 or 6 starts were successful but then blank screen again I repeated the process and got back into linux.

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boot problem suse 11.1 3 years 11 weeks ago

my PC will not boot.I have tried to repair on the start up screen and by YaST with on success. sometimes it says device.map is wrong.

/boot/grub/device.map: (hd0) /dev/disk/by_id/ata_Maxtor_6Y160PO_Y46RMYTE

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i installed ubuntu 12.04 server onto an older pc i had laying around and am getting a grub screen and when i go to boot ubuntu i get a blank screen and then the tv loses the signal from the box. its hooked up rgb and did work fine with 10.04 but i havent booted it up for about 2 months so wasnt exactly recent the last known good boot.

Updated this weekend from 10.04 to 11.10 and now when I boot, I get the standard "Mythbuntu" boot screen then sections of text, then blank screen, then text, then blank scree, etc until I finally just get a black screen.

I am Running an ATI video card HDMI out to TV.

Two lines appear and disappear too quickly to read when booting, followed by a blank purple screen that takes up most, but not all, of my monitor. It just hangs there. I have no idea how to fix this. Holding shift during boot successfully takes me into boot options (normal and recovery mode), and I can get into Grub, but I'm not sure what to change to successfully boot into Ubuntu.