Debian - blank screen after booting.

Kristoffer Ericson kristoffer.ericson at gmail.com
Wed May 12 02:02:58 EDT 2010


I had same bug last night, bootloader working fine while kernel just
being black.

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 06:15:26PM -0400, nebajoth wrote:
> Haha, I thought I'd bricked mine.  Turns out I'm just faced with this
> same bug.
> 
> On 05/11/2010 05:01 PM, Phil Endecott wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> > 
> > I've just tried to install Debian per the instructions at
> > http://pyneo.org/howto/debian/nano.html , using the debian-lenny-mini
> > filesystem.
> > 
> > After flashing, which seemed to go OK, I wasn't sure how I was expected
> > to reboot.  I pushed the power button and re-plugged USB in various
> > combinations but couldn't get anything to happen.  Eventually I removed
> > the battery; when I re-inserted it, it powered up with the display
> > backlight on, but nothing displayed.
> > 
> > Eventually I was surprised to discover (via the USB network) that the
> > Debian installation is running i.e. I can ssh in.  I then found that I
> > can get a console by pressing ctrl-alt-f2.  ctrl-alt-f1 goes back to the
> > blank screen.
> > 
> > Checking /etc/inittab shows that runlevel 2 has a terminal only on vt2,
> > and indeed it does seem to be in runlevel 2.
> > 
> > Is this the expected behaviour?  If so, it's not a great "out of box
> > experience", as they say.  If not, what have I done to get in this state?
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks to everyone who helped to get it this far.
> > 
> > 
> > Regards,  Phil.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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