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Title: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: dalolo on December 24, 2019, 05:46:24 PM
Merry Christmas erveryone!

I am new here and also quite new to Linux overall - i hope someone can help me as I am slowly running out of options due to my limited knowledge...

My situation:
What I tried so far:
Does anyone have a hint for me what I could try next? Any help would be very much appreciated!

Thanks!
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: Jerry on December 24, 2019, 09:30:19 PM
First, there is no need to allocate a swap file anymore, it is built into the filesystem now, so get rid of that. What other options are you choosing during install, LVM, Encryption etc?
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: dalolo on December 25, 2019, 03:41:59 AM
First, there is no need to allocate a swap file anymore, it is built into the filesystem now, so get rid of that. What other options are you choosing during install, LVM, Encryption etc?

Hi Jerry, thanks for your reply!

Good to know about swap - my limited knowledge is from almost 20 years ago during my studies :).
One argument for a separate swap space would be that I don't want too many write operations on my SSD but I think I'll drop that SSD for faster boot idea anyway - would have had some beauty in it but let's keep it simple.

Options during install:

I think that's about it - the installation wizard doesn't give more options apart from keyboard layout and location.

What do you think about me doing another new installation as simply as possible and going forward from there? --> No SSD; Just a 70GB Root and Rest Home partition on the HDD and boot from there; No additional drivers; No updates during installation; no LVM/encryption.

Is there a possibility to get my installed system boot into some secure mode or command line interface for further analysis?
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: Jerry on December 25, 2019, 03:51:25 AM
Hold down Shift key when PC boots, that'll get you to Grub. The choose Advanced, Recovery, then boot as Normal, see what that does. Keep a close eye on the scrolling text.
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: dalolo on December 25, 2019, 05:19:18 PM
Hold down Shift key when PC boots, that'll get you to Grub. The choose Advanced, Recovery, then boot as Normal, see what that does. Keep a close eye on the scrolling text.
Thanks Jerry! Though holding shift shows me 'Loading Grub.' just for a split second before it goes into a black screen again... Any idea from there?
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: dalolo on December 27, 2019, 05:07:38 AM
Hi everyone, after a lot of googling, trying and analyzing with my live USB drive I got somewhat frustrated and decided to go with another non-Ubuntu distribution which works fine with my setup.
As said earlier, with Bodhi Linux (which is also an Ubuntu flavor) I had the same behaviour, there seems to be some kind of incompatibility between my hardware and the Ubuntu Kernel. As I can't even get into GRUB and there are also no logs written, I can't analyze that any further. I don't think that debugging the Kernel is the way to go here - would be possible but my abilities+time are too limited for that.
Jerry, thanks again for looking into my problem and for the hints!
Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: TheDead on December 28, 2019, 05:16:16 PM
Hi,

When it goes to the blackscreen, do you have a white cursor blinking in the top left?
i.e. a white blicking, "_"

Also, I notice it's a notebook so it could be that the display is being sent to the external connector(s)... not always the OS'se fault since I had this on different platforms.

Title: Re: New installation not booting - blackscreen
Post by: dalolo on December 29, 2019, 06:48:39 AM
Hi,

When it goes to the blackscreen, do you have a white cursor blinking in the top left?
i.e. a white blicking, "_"

Also, I notice it's a notebook so it could be that the display is being sent to the external connector(s)... not always the OS'se fault since I had this on different platforms.

Hi TheDead,
thanks for your input - I gave up on LinuxLite or any other Ubuntu based distro now and have another distribution installed and running nicely so I can't try anything out anymore. I won't put any more time into it now but thanks anyway!

Though I can tell you that there was no cursor - just a pitch black screen...
And the system seemed to be caught in some kind of loop - as it was heating up like hell until I relieved it from its misery with a hard shut down (holding the power key did already hurt somewhat due to the heat ;)).

When trying to get into grub I just got "GRUB loading." for a split second and then again a black screen without anything - but then without heating up that much.

I tried to find something out by booting with my live USB stick and accessing the installed system's logs but I just found empty files there...