Good morning black screen

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Hello,

ThinkPad X220 has black screen this morning. Last night did updates and turned computer off like usually. I can see BIOS start up and some info:
“/dev/sda1: recovering journal
/dev/sda1: clean … files … bloks”
Then two underscores appear on top.
Cant supply more details because of black screen. No grub menu… Please help!

What am left with (the underscores on top): ibb. co /Kjnjxxq

[bogdancovaciu]

Hello,

Forum search should provide at least this:

[Fix] System doesn’t boot, boots to a black screen, or stops at a message

Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆ Original author in old forum was @jonathon While there are many potential reasons why your Manjaro installation doesn’t boot to a desktop, the primary reason is that the graphics drivers haven’t loaded correctly so your login/display manager (DM) doesn’t start. This is why you get a “black screen” or stuck at an [ OK ] Started some service message. The normal reason for this is that you have the incorrect driver version for the kernel. This happens when the mirror you …

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i looked into the link: thing is text console does not come up with ctrl + alt + f2…

[bogdancovaciu]

Continue reading, there is a linked chroot guide mentioned too …

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black screen was caused by video-vesa, which was installed out of curiosity…

[bogdancovaciu]

@temporary

black screen was caused by video-vesa

Marked your “finding” as solution.