Ok, so there seems to be a problem with plymouth managing to open the drm framebuffer; it falls back to the text splash screen which, in the vt_handoff case, is not visible.
Can you boot with plymouth:debug=file:/var/log/plymouth-debug.log added to the boot options, and attach the resulting file? (Either value of GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX is fine) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1048261 Title: Blank screen during system startup with Precise/Nouveau To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plymouth/+bug/1048261/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs