Mint 11 Katya screen goes all black when booting. I have to shut down the PC then when rebooting it works the second time.

[Francis Winters]

I just installed Mint 11 Katya RC fresh install and when i first boot in the screen goes dark and nothing happens. I shut down the PC then go in again and it works. Im running a very basic Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop. I am very new to Linux as well so if you need any log info please instruct me best on how to obtain it.

[Francis Winters (frwinters)]

When i first boot up the booter has the countdown waiting to make a choice. When i make the linux choice i still get the black screen. When i reboot my machine holding down my power button and it gets to the menu the countdown is not their and thats when the boot to linux works.

[Francis Winters (frwinters)]

I have been doing some tests, rebooting my machine a few times to see if i can see a pattern. On the booter you have your timmer which launches the operating system if you do not choose. I noticed that as per above when i did not have the counter i booted fine. This time around i moved the cursor on the booter to get rid of the counter then chose my option to boot into linux and behold it worked fine.

[Francis Winters (frwinters)]

scratch my test it still only fully starts for me on the second reboot.