[Chester LUG] Ubuntu boot problem

[Dave Hicks]

It doesn't....no sign of HDD activity either! Yeah I do have a spinning
disk, was tempted by SSD but not this time. I was actually wondering about
bringing it tonight to see if anyone could make head or tail of it!

Dave

On 11 December 2014 at 16:21, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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