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  1. Bug #1181388
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 1181388

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sublime (sublime) wrote :

I had a similar issue. My fix was:
sed -i -e 's/#GRUB_TERMINAL/GRUB_TERMINAL/g' /etc/default/grub
update-grub

Taken from:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/162535/why-does-switching-to-the-tty-give-me-a-blank-screen