On Thursday 30 March 2006 19:57, Levi Waldron wrote: > Comments/Problems: > The installation went perfectly until after the reboot. At the moment > when grub should have appeared, the screen instead went blank. After > the 5-second timeout the hard drive light came on, indicating that the > system was booting but without video display. I now have a "working" > Ubuntu system which is fine once X begins but I still can't see > anything during the console mode portion of boot-up. When I boot from > any Debian install disc using `linux vga=ask` and type `scan`, the > screen appears black for the duration of the scan, then comes back at > the end of the scan.
This is a very strange problem. Sounds like either your graphical card or your monitor does not conform to general standards. Otherwise I have no idea what may be happening here and I think you may have better luck asking elsewhere. We on the installer team have no experience with your issue and I feel is also a bit outside our responsibility. Sorry we can't help. Please do let us know if you find a solution. > I'm quite willing to help by trying things or providing more info, > just let me know. I have a couple suggestions from someone on > Debian-user which I haven't tried yet, namely passing acpi=on or > debian-installer/framebuffer=false at the installer boot prompt. As the installation itself went correctly, I very much doubt any of these parameters will make any difference.
