Black screen from Live CD

[Daniel J. Summers]

Mal Wanstall wrote:
> I boot up from the Desktop Install CD and it runs through its paces, I 
> get the black screen with the white writing letting me know things are 
> going OK then after that's all done I get a black screen and it stays 
> there and never goes away. After a while the CD stops spinning (so I 
> assume it's all loaded) but I still can't see anything...however it 
> hasn't frozen because when I attempt to reboot the computer the white 
> writing comes back on telling me its invoking the shutdown procedures.
Sounds like an X problem...  Try adding "nofb" to your boot parameters.  
I used to have to do that with Red Hat and Debian (although Ubuntu 
figured it out on it's own).  This disables framebuffer support, which 
sometimes confuses laptops.


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