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
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