Black screen before login on boot

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Chris wrote:
> Hello all,
> I a few of the Ubuntu and Kubuntu systems boot up with a black
> screen....nothing shows up until the login prompt, then everything is
> ok.  I would think the last graphic issue that I should have is with the
> initial boot process, before the GUI kicks in.  Any I idea what would
> cause this?
>
> Chris

Try removing the    "quiet splash"  from the kernel line of the grub  menu.lst

and replacing it with  vga=normal

There's some problem with your graphics resolution.... the above should at 
least get you the boot messages and you can go from there.