black boot

[dibl]

It is not necessarily Grub or Grub configuration -- it could well be the kernel configuration options that were used to compile the new kernel. Unfortunately, unless you first install 12.04, and then use the upgrade path to 12.10, there's no convenient way to have a 12.10 system with the last 12.04 kernel. But I'm suggesting that if you could have that configuration, you would find the 12.04 kernel booting you to a proper display, and the 12.10 kernel booting to the "powered down" display.

[oshunluvr]

I don't see why I should suddenly need to use any of these options, when I *never* had to use them before. Up to Precise, the boot screen displayed just fine. It's exclusively now with Quantal that I have a black screen during boot all of a sudden, with the monitor reporting "no signal". It's got something to do with the boot-related files in Quantal, and it looks like it's got nothing to do with Grub.

I'm not trying to pick a fight here or anything, but seriously : If your expectation when upgrading to a Beta release is that nothing will change, why are you upgrading at all - much less to a Beta release?

If your primary concern is to not have to fix things or make adjustments to a new release, I suggest you stay well away from anything labeled Beta or maybe even consider not upgrading at all.

Based on your statement above, you should return to 12.04 and be happy.

On the other hand, if you want to try out the latest and greatest releases, by all means do so. But I doubt you'll ever be happy if you continue to expect no issues at all. Remember - you didn't pay for this OS and no one owes you any results or service. A great number of users here are successfully using 12.10 without the problem you're having. You might get more satisfaction out of actual troubleshooting and problem solving (looking for solutions) rather than ignoring advice and complaining.

Possibly switching to a distro that offers fee-based service like Ubuntu or Red Hat would be a better choice for you. Either way, good luck with your future linux travails.

[Shimapan]

By all means, you're coming off as very brash and abrasive here.

It's the point of people installing betas to come to the appropiate forums, report undesired behaviour and then consult with others about it.
Nobody is helped if you come along and pretty much say: "Quit your whining, if you don't like the beta, go back to the previous versions, although you'd better get the f*ck out and use another distro."

[jlittle]

You need to correctly configure your graphics mode in Grub.

I got the black screen, "Analog out of range" on a fresh install of 12.04.1. No opportunity to configure grub was given.
(I could press enter to run the first item on grub's menu, and Kubuntu booted, and didn't work, but that's another story.)

A solution was to press F6 and check "nomodeset" before installing. How is a first user of kubuntu going to react?


Regards, John Little

[Shimapan]

I got the black screen, "Analog out of range" on a fresh install of 12.04.1. No opportunity to configure grub was given.
(I could press enter to run the first item on grub's menu, and Kubuntu booted, and didn't work, but that's another story.)

A solution was to press F6 and check "nomodeset" before installing. How is a first user of kubuntu going to react?

Yes, that was what I was thinking as well: How is a first time user of Kubuntu to react?
Which I why I reported it here, so it can be fixed before the final version gets out.
Having a black screen on boot as your first experience would quite possibly turn away newcomers. They might even think that it's crashed and hit reset, before they can find out it's just some boot-related problem, and anything else still works fine.

[lucazade]

please guys ... don't go OT.
there is a regression in -22 kernel.. there are a couple of modified kernels in my original bug report to track the issue down but unfortunately didn't help.

[jlittle]

please guys ... don't go OT.

Sorry, was my black boot with 12.04.1 OT?

there is a regression in -22 kernel.. there are a couple of modified kernels in my original bug report to track the issue down but unfortunately didn't help.

-22? Which kernel is that?

[lucazade]

Sorry, was my black boot with 12.04.1 OT?

latest 6/7 posts are OT..

-22? Which kernel is that?

3.5.0-15.22 is the latest one, broken.
3.5.0-15.21 instead is working good.

[Shimapan]

3.5.0-15.22 is the latest one, broken.
3.5.0-15.21 instead is working good.

Let me check...
Yes, I'm also using kernel 3.5.0-15.22.
So that's what is causing this black screen? Good to know.

[lucazade]

fixed with kernel 3.5.0-15.23!

[wazzanz69]

Prob wrong section, and real noob question, running beta 1 with 3.5.0-14. How can i get it to update to the latest one 3.5.0-15.23

[SteveRiley]

Prob wrong section, and real noob question, running beta 1 with 3.5.0-14. How can i get it to update to the latest one 3.5.0-15.23

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

[wazzanz69]

Still ahowing up as Linux 3.5.0-14-generic

[SteveRiley]

Hm... what's the output of

dpkg -l | grep linux-image

[wazzanz69]