Dear Mr. Vanrenterghem, I had a similar problem some time ago (getting a blank screen in the Debian 9.3 installer), also with a Lenovo laptop. I was able to solve the problem by going into the BIOS and under startup options changing the "UEFI/Legacy Boot" setting to "Both." Sincerely, Greg Marks > Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 10:23:44 +0800 > From: Frederik Vanrenterghem <frederik@vanrenterghem.biz> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Lenovo Yoga 920 - debian installer goes black > > I'm trying to install the latest weekly build debian-installer netinstall > image on a Lenovo Yoga 920 (with the non-free drivers - same result as the > official build). I also tried the latest stable for good measure. > The initial screen (Debian UEFI installer menu) displays. It's possible to > go to Grub too. > As soon as I select either graphical install or install, the screen > backlight seems to go off / the screen goes black. > The Ubuntu installer does not have this problem. Is there a way to modify > the ubuntu installer to initiate the debian installer for instance? (I've > seen reports of Fedora installing on this laptop too.) > Best regards, > Frederik
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