Comment 3 for bug 149071

Similar problem here on two different models of Compaq Proliant. I don't have a clue what's going on, so this is as good a place to post the issue as any.

At first, the server and 386 kernels boot but no video. SSH works, but no hardware video. The keyboard worked, as I could log in and reboot by typing from memory without screen feedback.

Figuring the problem was something about the video and my LCD screen, I used vidmode=-1 to force simple vga. On reboot, kernel starts to boot, then hangs and the keyboard LEDs start flashing.

The upgrade to gutsy seems to have hosed up the kernel configurations. For one, the first stanza in the grub menu is to the 386 kernel instead of either the server or generic (686) kernel. Second, the video hasn't been working correctly.

I have the suspicion that the apparmor dependency on the 386 kernel and the linux-image-ubuntu-modules are the culprits, but I have no idea.

Kernel-level issues are rather foreign to me. I have only a dim inkling of what's going on in that magical moment between when grub fires off and the machine starts booting.

Loye Young