Black Screen on First Boot

From	Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Black Screen on First Boot
Date	2016-12-13 03:10 +0100
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Greetings,

The netinst of jessie from a flash drive, graphic install, went well 
like it did on another PC, but on this old PC the boot after install 
produced a black screen.

vbeinfo lists some display settings followed by "Preferred mode 
1360x768", but this mode is not in the list. There is an * beside 
1024x768x32 in the list. Is that the mode used during the install?

What is the "Preferred mode 1360x768" for? Is that for the kernel? I 
tried to change that by doing this:

grub> set root=(hd0,1)
grub> set gfxpayload=1024x768
grub> linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-686-pae root=/dev/sda1
grub> initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-686-pae
grub> boot

But that still resulted in a black screen. What should be done instead?

  - Dan

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Black Screen on First Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2016-12-13 03:10 +0100
  Re: Black Screen on First Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-12-13 10:40 +0100
    Re: Black Screen on First Boot Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com> - 2016-12-14 00:30 +0100
      Re: Black Screen on First Boot Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-12-14 01:40 +0100

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