Re: [Bug 989793] Re: blank screen on startup

2012-05-08 Thread John Cottier
Hi Steve, I am not sure about EFI. My PC is not at all new (Dell E521) and it seems to have a standard BIOS to me. The only slightly unusual thing is that I boot it from an external USB hard drive, as this is all just experimental. My SATA drive still has 10.04 on it. Is it possible that the sy

Re: [Bug 989793] Re: blank screen on startup

2012-05-02 Thread John Cottier
Hi Steve, No, but I forgot to re-run update-grub...Doh! It takes about 20 seconds to boot. I will update and run apport again. Regards John Cottier. On 02/05/12 07:10, Steve Langasek wrote: > The apport information shows the following kernel commandline: > >BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-24-