On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Kent West wrote: > In /etc/default/grub, I commented out the line that mentioned "quiet", > and in the next line, added between the quotes "nomodeset", ran > "update-grub", and rebooted. > > Frozen....
Presumably there was more output than just "initializing ramdisk". But in any event, once you do get it booted, installing a newer kernel from jessie-backports will likely resolve some (or all) of this issue. -- Don Armstrong https://www.donarmstrong.com To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an authority myself -- Albert Einstein