[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 518938] Re: black screen on Intel HM55 - during boot and Xorg

2010-02-11 Thread Eric Boesch
When swapping the kernel out, how do you get to see a shell prompt from which to run dpkg in the first place? Is it necessary to build a custom boot disk as described at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallCDCustomization , or am I overlooking an easy answer to this? (Without boot disk

[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 518938] Re: black screen on Intel HM55 - during boot and Xorg

2010-02-09 Thread Eric Boesch
Just a confirm -- I too run an HM55 chip set system that yields a blank screen, whether run normally or in safe mode, when I attempt to run ubuntu-9.10-desktop-amd64.iso off the install disk. In my case, the machine that has failed to load Ubuntu Linux is an Acer Aspire 7740-5691. -- black