Comments on: How to fix ubuntu 10.04 LTS (lucid) blank Screen at startup

By: trav

trav — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:59:48 +0000

After install and restart I hold shift but all I see is grub loading quickly in the upper left then I can only choose try it out. If I remove the CD and boot I get no video then black screen … please help… I’m using dell 2hdd and 6gig ram amd 64 nvidia on the motherboard Ubuntu 11.10

By: Aric

Aric — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:38:25 +0000

Thanks! Solution 2 worked on my hp g4-1117dx

By: Yammer

Yammer — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 01:26:14 +0000

Hey, I was having this problem with an old Dell Optiplex GX200. I installed Lubuntu 10.04 on it, and it wouldn’t load X. So, I just followed “Solution1″ above and it loaded no problems. Thanks a bunch!

By: Chris Bristol

Chris Bristol — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:30:04 +0000

Thanks, suggestion number one (nomodeset) works for Lubuntu 11.04 on an old Fujitsu-Siemens Scenic-T. I wanted to “Try Lubuntu without installing”.

By: German

German — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 18:15:12 +0000

Thanks! Solution #2 worked just fine for a 7 year old Toshiba Satellite A45.

By: Jairo Canseco

Jairo Canseco — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:26:00 +0000

thanks 2 confused for the tip of pressing shift + e
at startup, fixed my problem & helped alot
thank very much

By: tim

tim — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 23:30:05 +0000

There are also issues with fstab and ureadahead that can affect booting. http://forums.quantact.com/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=1144

By: confused

confused — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:59:31 +0000

Never mind. Found from another site that you have to hold shift to get the grub screen, then press e. (You might want to add that step for us n00bs) After that everything worked great. Thanks.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:17:47 +0000

> pressed “e” about 50 times during boot. Never saw
> a grub screen to edit.
To work this method, you have to see first the grub menu (it’s used to let you choose between operating systems). Did you see it?

By: confused

confused — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:55:04 +0000

pressed “e” about 50 times during boot. Never saw a grub screen to edit.

By: Androidia

Androidia — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 12:30:48 +0000

Solution 1 worked great for me. Thanks.

By: Mat Lemmings

Mat Lemmings — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:19:47 +0000

Solution 2 worked great here, on a Toshiba Tecra A2. Thanks!

By: Rich Gray

Rich Gray — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:40:36 +0000

Solution 2 worked on my six year old Toshiba Tecra A2-S336.

By: Albert L. WAHL

Albert L. WAHL — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 16:01:11 +0000

How can I reboot from disk

By: Scott Dion

Scott Dion — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 20:29:25 +0000

Solution 2 worked for me for my A10 Toshiba, thanks!

By: je007

je007 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:32:56 +0000

THANK YOU!! This is GREAT. Worked perfectly for my ATI Radeon 2400.

By: Zachary

Zachary — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 21:06:23 +0000

Solution #1 worked for me with old Matrox dual output video card on old computer - thanks.

By: Rick Bywater

Rick Bywater — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:43:27 +0000

My Dell D505 had the same problem, but the i915.modeset=1 change that worked for Frank Henderson worked for me, as well.

By: Ian Lynch

Ian Lynch — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:08:22 +0000

The HP G62-a21SA note book has an ATi Radeon HD4250 graphics card that will work on Karmic at 1024 x 768 but causes boot up to fail on more recent Ubuntus. Early in the boot sequence screen blanks so installation is impossible. Live boot up works from the CD but on installation and reboot from the hard drive it fails. I also had to fix the broadcom wireless network driver but that now works ok. I can’t find a reference to the Radeon HD4250 in any of the driver software so I think it is new and not yet supported. If anyone knows that this is not the case pleasae let me know and I’ll try again. Otherwise I’m just going to wait and hope that Meercat gets this fixed.

By: G. Mathew

G. Mathew — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:01:03 +0000

juat tell me how we can install ubuntu linux on HP G62