It seems that Ubutu even on servers starts some high-res console or does other stuff that causes a black screen during boot. It requires fiddling with alt-fx keys to get a console.
That sounds like it might be a side effect of kernel mode setting and/or splash screens. You can try to disable both by changing
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash <possibly some other things>"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nomodeset <possibly some other things>"
in /etc/default/grub and see if it still happens.
Edit: I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu Server or Minimal CD.
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That sounds like it might be a side effect of kernel mode setting and/or splash screens. You can try to disable both by changing
to in /etc/default/grub and see if it still happens.Edit: I'm assuming you're using Ubuntu Server or Minimal CD.
Yes thanks, I recall this works, but I don't like the mindset of having this stuff on a server-edition of your OS to begin with.