Re: Screen goes black after install

[Mark Allums <maa@allums.xyz>]

On 06/17/2015 10:12 AM, Dwijesh Gajadur wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I recently bought and installed a PCI ATI Rage 128 Video card on my pc.
> I then installed Debian Jessie on the pc.
> After booting the following lines appear:
>
> Loading, Please wait...
> fsck from util-linux 2.25.2
> /dev/sda5: clean, 48855/7553024 files, 821115/38202368 blocks
> _
>
> And then the screen goes black..nothing appears.
> I have tested the video card on windows and it works well.
>
> I also want to run debian on non-graphical mode..I did not install any
> desktop environment.I want to run it on command line as a server.

Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if a login prompt appears.  If it does, the 
machine is trying to start X and failing.  I would try to get X running, 
but if you don't want X, you should probably check and see if a DM (such 
as lightdm) is installed, then go from there.