[Chester LUG] Ubuntu boot problem

[Les Pritchard]

That is a strange one, does it sound like anything is loading in the
background when the screen goes blank? That's assuming you have a spinning
disk in there...just realised that SSDs are ruining that check now!!

On 11 December 2014 at 09:49, Dave Hicks <d.hicks87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Really sorry I haven't been in touch for ages or attended any of the meets
> for a few months. I finally have a dedicated linux box now to have a play
> with. I installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a laptop, but it has a strange issue
> whereby if I restart it or on the first cold boot, it gets past the BIOS
> screen but then the screen goes blank.
>
> If I hard power off and power on I then get GRUB and it boots into the OS
> without any issues - have I missed something here or is something amiss?
>
>
> Dave
>
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