Comment 14 for bug 1167114

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memilanuk (memilanuk) wrote :

I have the same problem... Lenovo ThinkPad T530 that has been running Linux (pretty much any distro) fine until recently. Currently dual-booting Win7 Pro and Ubuntu 12.10. Tried installing Fedora 18 and Fuduntu 2013.1 for multi-boot about a week ago. Live USB worked fine... install went fine... initial boot went fine... downloaded all the necessary updates and rebooted... got the same blank black screen after grub as described here. Given the number of updates applied at the time (hundreds) I literally had no idea where to even look, and just went back to Ubuntu 12.10 as it was still working fine.

Until the last update involving kernel 3.5.0-27. Rebooted... same blank black screen after grub.

Selected the 'Advanced Options' -> 3.5.0-26 generic kernel, and was able to boot normally (like now). When I tried the 3.5.0-27 failsafe kernel, I get partways through the boot cycle but it just hangs at pretty much the exact same point every time.

I'd like to help... but it seems that there is no good way to capture the boot messages when the machine doesn't even make it all the way through to a console? Short of writing down by hand the last few messages displayed on the screen when the machine locks up, and re-posting them here, what can I / we do to help? I mean, I'll do that if thats the only option, but I was hoping there was something else.

Just a thought... given that the three distros mentioned have very different kernel versions (I was told F18 was at something like 3.8.5-201?) it seems that its some small security update that would be common between the different distros that would cause all to recently not boot on certain hardware...?