This is likely of no use to anyone but me, ever, but I’ll post it anyway. I’m trying to install Linux on a 10-year old Beckhoff CX5020 industrial computer, and everything works fine until about somewhere in the middle of the user-mode startup process when the screen goes blank and never comes back. I tried disabling X and that didn’t matter. Even booting in single-user mode didn’t help. It still went blank while booting. I could SSH in over the network to debug, but couldn’t get a w...
