On 07/30/2012 10:58 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 05:35:20PM -0400, Gerry Reno wrote:
> On 07/26/2012 05:12 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 08:59:20PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:
>>
>>> When booting Fedora 17 x64 there's the GRUB bootloader with graphical
background image,
>>> I let it boot the default entry "Fedora 17", I see it the
allocating memory pages, loading VMLINUZ etc,
>>> and then the display mode / resolution changes, and then there's just
blank screen and a cursor blinking..
>> If you see a resoution change then try booting with nomodeset.
>>
> You might also see if you can get one of the alternate terminals. If that works then
the kernel is booted and its just
> X which is not starting.
>
I can't change terminals. I assume the kernel doesn't boot at all, or crashes
very early.
I can't see any kind of activity from Linux kernel after GRUB-efi messages and the
screen switches to blank..
-- Pasi
Have you tried booting with more logging? Without "quiet" param?
.