Black screen with "/dev/sda1 clean" message

[Fabby]

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I had to hold the power in to kill it.

Please read this:

[HowTo] reboot / turn off your frozen computer: REISUB/REISUO

Difficulty: ★★☆☆☆ This tutorial was created because people are using a hard power off during freezes, so this will teach you how to turn off your computer when everything is frozen using softer means. So whenever you see someone saying they had to “Power Off” or “Hard Reset” their system without doing a REISUB, please send them here! If you’re reading this in response to a question, please click the green link above this text to bring you to the full unabridged text of the tutorial…

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non-graphical access/control via GRUB

Just press Ctrl+Alt+F2 to go to TTY2

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to get a verbose boot

Change quiet to text in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT in /etc/default/grub

1. Please read this:
   [HowTo] Provide System Information
   and post some more information so we can see what’s really going on. Now we know the symptom of the disease, but we need some more probing to know where the origin lies…
2. An inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --no-host --width would be the minimum required information for us to be able to help you. (Personally Identifiable Information like serial numbers and MAC addresses will be filtered out by the above command)
   Also, please copy-paste that output in-between 3 backticks ``` at the beginning and end of the code/text.