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  1. Bug #149413
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 149413

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Jaime (jaime-lopez) wrote :

Adding vga=791 to defoptions in /boot/grub/menu.lst resolved the black screen part

But there's no login prompt, only a "_" character in every VT

I'm sure getty is working:
root 4980 1 0 09:50 tty4 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty4
root 4981 1 0 09:50 tty5 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty5
root 4983 1 0 09:50 tty2 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty2
root 4984 1 0 09:50 tty3 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty3
root 4985 1 0 09:50 tty1 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty1
root 4987 1 0 09:50 tty6 00:00:00 /sbin/getty 38400 tty6