[email protected] writes: > - From either, if I select 1, or just let it time out and do it > automatically, I see a horizontal line of numbers appear, and then the > screen goes black, never to return. There is no flashing of the USB or > motion of the CD, and no key combinations cause anything to happen. I > just have to push the power button to power it off (which is > instantaneous).
My guess is that a graphics driver is being attached, which goes badly. I recently booted a 11.0 install image on USB on two ~5 year old Dell systems and a 2010 imac (for some reason old computers flow to me for fixing up from various people), and on at least one, attached radeon broke it. I ended up dropping to boot menu, and "userconf disable radeon*". That was annoying, so I disabled radeon and similar in GENERIC and rebuilt install media and have been using that. On another old dell: i915drmkms0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (rev. 0x02) Intel Core 6G Gaussian Mixture Model (miscellaneous system) at pci0 dev 8 function 0 not configured and that works. Try "disable i916drmkms*". See boot(8).
