On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:21:00AM +0000, Rigved Rakshit wrote: > Hello, > > > > The boot-up menu is shown and when I select the first item; > Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64, the screen just blanks out. > > There are no boot messages, nothing. > > The num-lock indicator lights up and then goes out. > > After waiting a while, I tried the caps-lock key, it's responsive by way > of the indicator going on and off. > > > > Try this: Edit the kernel boot line (on the GRUB boot menu, press the > letter "e", move the cursor down to the kernel / vmlinuz line) and add this > one word at the end of the line: nomodeset . Then, follow the on-screen > instructions to continue the boot process. > > Hope this helps!
No, it didn't help. Did what you had suggested, pressed "Fn10" after appending "nomodeset" to that particular line, but nothing again. Instead, I tried another trick. I hit the BIOS boot-device selection key during POST, it showed me a whole lot of options, one of which was (strangely) labled "debian". Selected that, and bam, everything works like it should. While this might be a good trick, it isn't even a hack, leave alone a proper solution. Any more suggestions would be very welcome. Thanks, ~Mayuresh -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
