I've seen a similar issue on intrepid previously. I had a box with an "ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955" card where I could see the GRUB menu just fine but the entire boot sequence was black (until I got to GDM so basically usplash was black or what it's called).
I find it strange that you don't even see the grub menu though? Because of this I've opened this bug against grub as well, maybe one of their triagers/devs can comment on what component is broken if the grub menu isn't even shown. ** Also affects: grub (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Ubuntu 9.04 RC shows nothing on screen at boot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/364057 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs