Black Screen Help Please

[steve42000]

Before i get a torrent of abuse i have looked at the fourm and nothing in it seems to relate to what i have people have the same issues but i cant seem to fix my problem with there solutions any how

when i boot up my BT3 Final live cd i get to the selection screen fine but if i chose any option it will just black screen untill i press the power button then it produces the boot screen but nothing is happening

i can boot in to BT3 Final buy going to text mode and entering in
noapic
acpi=off
then starting startx at the bt prompt
what i need to no is why this is happening and how do i fix the problem thanks

[serephys]

exact same problem im having...im using an hp dv6809wm laptop

i know its not the disc, it works perfectly on my desktop

[parks]

I am not sure if my problem is the same but here goes.

I've found that after booting from the DVD my screen stays blank then after some time I end up in my KDE GUI but up to that point my console is blank no text nothing at all. I see the drive spin, and the system boots up fine, but the console is blank.

I tested the DVD in vmware and all worked as it should, the console shows all the boot up checks and I log in just fine.

I did a hard drive install to my laptop and the same thing happens but in this case I have to blindly type in my username and pass then startx

after that x loads and I can do everything just fine

so it would seem that only the boot console is effected.

I did a lot of searching and found that I can add vga=769 to 792 to the kernel line in grub.conf or LILO

here is the list

+ | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+256 | 769 771 773 775
+32k | 784 787 790 793
+64k | 785 788 791 794
+16M | 786 789 792 795

I have not found one that works for me yet but maybe it might for you.
If anyone else can help with this please and thank you.