Black screen on boot Surface Pro 6

[Hanzel]

@cmarland00

I have followed a couple of the other suggestions in the wiki that say to login to a terminal window and update the packages, and this still did not work.

Excuse me for being vague I was referring to your comment in italics above

Have you seen this excellent guide btw:

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