Ubuntu :: Only Boot With Black / Blank Screen?

Jul 9, 2011

so I had a black screen when I was starting up my PC instead of the normal Ubuntu with the dots underneath. I have Ubuntu 11.04 on a dual-boot with Windows Vista. It would still boot normally and work fine but I wanted it with the Ubuntu and dots etc.

After looking at many sites to try and fix it that didn't work I found this: [URL]. That didn't work so I found this next: [URL]

I did what it said by removing

Code:
vt.handoff=7

Then when rebooted I got the Ubuntu with the purple background and dots but the boot would hang (always when all 5 dots were orange). I booted into recovery mode and I chose "File System Check" on reboot and it would get to the bit with 5 orange dots then it would check disk for errors and go to login screen then work fine.

If I added vt.handoff=7 it would boot normally with a black screen again.

RESULTS.txt is from when I had vt.handoff=7 removed and I was in Recovery mode>resume normal boot>"sudo bash ~/Desktop/boot_info_script.sh".

RESULTS1.txt is from when I booted up with the disk check and was in Terminal.

EDIT: Also just recently I'm getting a lot of boot hangs, freezes (where everything on screen will freeze and if I was playing music in Banshee it repeats the last 3 seconds until I hold down button on PC), and it will sometimes just restart randomly. Not sure if that related or not...

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