okay after rebooting via grub installed by sda1 .. as before .. red flash (no plymouth) lightdm briefly displays login screen .. then underline cursor then blank screen.
attached is zl10-boot2-xorg.0.log xorg.0.log.old is now the already uploaded zl10-xorg.0.log above a crashing time is revealed in the log file .. ** Attachment added: "zl10-boot2-xorg.0.log" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1821609/+attachment/5252075/+files/zl10-boot2-Xorg.0.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg-server in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1821609 Title: lightdm login screen briefly appears and then blanks out on Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5870 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lightdm/+bug/1821609/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp