You can face this issue in two conditions.
1. Those who have installed ubuntu 10.04 might encountered this problem. The screen goes blank just after grub (may be after bios startup, if grub timeout early).
2. Blank screen on bootup after Upgrade from 9.10 -> 10.4,
1. Those who have installed ubuntu 10.04 might encountered this problem. The screen goes blank just after grub (may be after bios startup, if grub timeout early).
Please follow the steps below to fix it.
Press e on getting the GRUB bootloader(if not getting grub, press and hold shift key to get grub).
Go to the line which says 'quiet and splash', delete these words and type in one of the option from below in their place.
The suggested options that I have found are hardware specific.
Here is a list:
- Older Intel video card: i915.modeset=1 or i915.modeset=0
- nVidia: nomodeset
- Generic: xforcevesa
Now press Ctrl + X to boot
Now login to your Ubuntu as usual.
If you have a Nvidia graphics card, this may be the issue with it,
Now goto System->Administration->Hardware drivers, and select and activate the nvidia current driver if you have an nvidia card. The driver will be downloaded and activated automatically, and you will be prompted for a reboot.
2. Blank screen on bootup after Upgrade from 9.10 -> 10.4,
A solution for this is not found, i am on it. Maybe upgrading to a new kernel will do it.
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it solved my problem...
I followed the steps you mention for the first case(expirimental), and it just worked. But now i can't see the splash.
Any way now there isn't any blank screen or delay in bootup.
Thanks buddy.
To avoid the blank screen just remove the word "quiet" from "quiet splash" by doing this you won't lose your splash.
Enjoy!
What I did to fix the problem (but it's just a temporary workaround):
At entering the grub menu, press 'e'. Scroll down to the second line that you see, press 'e' again and replace the words 'quiet splash' with 'nomodeset'.
I could not edit my options for a nvidia driver because mine is a ATI Radeon or something. What i did:
open a terminal and enter 'sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst'
Now you can edit your grub menu. Scroll down until you see the booting options. Over there you will see the same line that you edited at startup. Do the same thing here and replace quiet splash with nomodeset.
As i said: just a temporary solution, until the bug is fixed.
Deleted the line Quiet.
Inserted nomodeset
press Cntr-X, nothing is happening. Pressing b for boot, system is rebooting, inserted line is gone and replaced bu quiet again.
HELP!!
Gone through some threads suggesting pressing e, holding shift, Esc....before the black screen
But none of them works,still black...Please Help :(