Saturday, September 15, 2018

boot - Booting Into Black Screen

For whatever reason my machine is booting into a black screen. When I press the power button it will display the purple background with the Ubuntu logo and turn off.



I tried booting with a live CD but the top 'Reinstall Ubuntu' option is greyed out. Why is that?



Pressing ESC brings up the GNU GRUB screen:




  • Ubuntu.


  • Advanced Options.

  • Mem Test.

  • Mem Test.



When I go into advanced options and try 'Run in graphical safemode' I can't see the cursor to select anything. I can hover over stuff (with no cursor) but can't click on them. Enter, Tab, arrows to nothing.

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