Re: Blank screen at boot with kernel 3.1

[Alberto Luaces <aluaces@udc.es>]

Rémi Moyen writes:

> OK, so now I get what I think should be a working up-to-date testing
> system. Rebooting on the 2.6.32 kernel works again perfectly. But
> rebooting on the 3.1 kernel starts to boot (it prints at least the
> "waiting for udev to be populated" message) and then all I get is a
> blank screen. Some messages get displayed before, but so fast that I
> have no hope to even catch a glimpse of a word. The screen flickers
> when it becomes black, at about the time where in the 2.6 kernel the
> screen resolution changes, so I guess this is the step that fails.
> With the blank screen, I can't do anything. Keyboard seems dead (at
> least "Caps Lock" doesn't respond, although "Num Lock" does). The
> machine is still alive and can be logged-on remotely, but that's all.
> I didn't see anything strange in syslog or dmesg, but I might have
> missed something.
>
> I stress here the fact that I am only working in console. No X server
> has been installed yet, and certainly no display manager (so when
> booting, it stays in console). I will install an X server later but I
> feel that I should fix problems one at a time... (actually, I did a
> first install with the graphic environment as well and things didn't
> work better, so I started again a fresh install without it, to better
> isolate problems)

If you are not running or have X installed, you can uninstall nouveau
and nvidia-glx packages.

Since you can access the machine from a network connection, watch for
errors in the logs with the «dmesg» command.

-- 
Alberto