Public bug reported: Today I did our first production 14.04 to 16.04 LTS server upgrade. I had done so a couple of times successfully on test server machines. Upon booting up on the 16.04 system/kernel, after the Grub screen the server console screen is completely blank.
Someone suggested using Ctrl-Alt-F1/8, and indeed pressing those hotkeys does toggle through the tty screens. There is no boot process logged to the server console screen. I did have the last 14.04 kernel yet installed, so selected that one from the Grub menu. Booting that 14.04 kernel, then server console display behaves normally. So I suspected perhaps a bum install of the 16.04 kernel. I used the following commands while booted to the 14.04 kernel to reinstall the 16.04 kernel: $ sudo dpkg -P linux-image-4.4.0-59-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-59-generic linux-image-generic $ sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic Same results booting the 16.04 kernel after those steps. Hardware spec is an Intel Atom D945GCLF2D boxed motherboard with Intel Atom 330 Dual-Core processor and 2GB RAM. RAID is 3Ware SATA RAID. ** Affects: linux-meta (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656605 Title: No server console display after Grub screen until fully booted and pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1/8 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/1656605/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs