I am having exactly the same problem as Jape Person's post from Oct 22 2016, except my hardware environment is completely different.
I am running Debian testing/Stretch 64-bit on a virtual machine under virtualbox. The host OS is Windows 7 64-bit. I don't know exactly which kernel update was the culprit because I got behind on my updates, but I think the problem appeared sometime around 4.7.6 or so. I still have a 4.6 kernel image on the VM so I am able to boot to that just fine. To be specific, after the grub menu disappears the screen goes blank and there is no further activity, no matter how long I wait. Choosing recovery mode in grub does not change anything. Also redirecting the console out a serial port doesn't provide any info -- no serial data is transmitted. I thought this might be a virtualbox compatibility problem, but since someone else is experiencing the same thing on a non-VM machine I now suspect the kernel. Should I post this as a bug somewere, and if so where? Thanks! --Mike Conde
