On 05/03/2021 15:03, Christian Kastner wrote: > My attempts at installing with full disk encryption all failed at boot > time (same effect: blank screen after the loading kernel message). > > I then tried an installation without FDE. Again the blank screen, but > eventually a lightdm appeared (I chose XFCE at installation time). > > This made me realize: the FDE installation probably worked fine, too, > it's just that where I was seeing a blank screen, the system was > prompting me for a password to decrypt the drive.
I had experienced almost the same thing, and trying it in QEMU I found it was prompting for the password over the serial connection. Check /proc/consoles to see if serial is the "preferred" console. > Can anyone advise me on how to fix this, ie get the console video on the > LCD back during early boot? I'm sure there is a simple solution, but I'm > not familiar enough with non-GRUB systems. If so, adding "console=tty0" to the kernel cmdline (as the last console= value) would fix that. Also, IIRC installing plymouth works around that as it asks for the password on all consoles (as opposed to initramfs-tools asking on only the preferred one).
