I had a similar issue. My fix was: sed -i -e 's/#GRUB_TERMINAL/GRUB_TERMINAL/g' /etc/default/grub update-grub
Taken from: http://askubuntu.com/questions/162535/why-does-switching-to-the-tty-give-me-a-blank-screen -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1181388 Title: no tty login prompts, ctrl-alt-f* fails To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shadow/+bug/1181388/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
