Adding vga=791 to defoptions in /boot/grub/menu.lst resolved the black screen part
But there's no login prompt, only a "_" character in every VT I'm sure getty is working: root 4980 1 0 09:50 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4 root 4981 1 0 09:50 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5 root 4983 1 0 09:50 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2 root 4984 1 0 09:50 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3 root 4985 1 0 09:50 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1 root 4987 1 0 09:50 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6 -- Cannot switch to VT from Xorg (Gutsy) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/149413 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
