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Old 01-12-2012, 09:57 AM   #1
Tootler
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Blank Screen when booting LM12 from usb stick or DVD


When I try to boot Linux Mint 12 from a usb stick, I get past the LInux Mint booting countdown screen and the loading casper text then the screen goes blank and stays blank. After a time I hear the startup sound but still blank (no mouse pointer, unlike my netbook which has LM11) simply continued blank though there is periodic activity on the usb stick but the screen remains persistently blank.

I tried booting into compatibility mode with the same result. Some text scrolled up the screen then a blank screen.

I also tried booting from a DVD with the same result.

I have tried booting into LM11 from a usb stick and that boots up OK.

My computer is currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and this occasionally happens on startup, but restarting has, up to now, got the computer running OK.

I have a HP G72 Laptop with a 1.87 GHz P6000 Pentium processor and 3 GB memory (at least that's what the spec said, the system monitor gives 2.4 GB.)

Update

I was going to partition the drive and install Mint on one partition, leaving Ubuntu on the other for the time being but there was a catastrophic error during partitioning and I had to reformat the hard drive. I have now installed Linux Mint 11 OK but I still have the same problem with trying to start LM12 from a usb stick so I can't try LM 12 and upgrade which is what I was hoping to do so I am no further forward - except the OS is now more up to date.

Last edited by Tootler; 01-16-2012 at 03:35 PM. Reason: Updating after hdd partitioning failure
 
Old 01-17-2012, 08:42 PM   #2
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I would try booting the knoppix CD/DVD as it has great hardware recognition, etc and what is the output of these commands as root in a terminal

lspci

cat /proc/cpuinfo

BTW if you need to, before starting the LM12 DVD/USB, hit TAB at the boot screen and enter the word "text" into the command line and it should boot to a console runlevel, if possible try "startx" after logging in as user.
If it goes black, etc then hit ctrl-alt-F1 and look for any errors, etc onscreen
 
Old 01-31-2012, 09:52 PM   #3
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it sounds crazy, but adjust the brightness. i had the same problem, fought for 2 days with it. hit the brightness button a couple times and it was all there.
 
Old 02-08-2012, 08:26 PM   #4
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Not with Mint in particular, but I've had that happen more than one distro during USB boot. Reformatting the USB pen and recopying the boot image to the pen solved the problem.
 
Old 02-08-2012, 11:14 PM   #5
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Maybe some bios setttings or a device failing or a part/device that never was good.

Since you say you have seen this before I assume that it is not unique to mint. I also make a huge assumption that the media is good.



Try this next time.

Do a full power off. Pull AC plug. Press power button a few times. Then restore ac plug and try to boot to mint. Change?
 
  


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