Help - Black Screen when booting into Linux Mint

[OutlawJoseyWales]

Need some help here.

I made a bootable flash drive of CachyOS and booted into that.
Played around for a while and decided it's not for me and will stick with Cinnamon.

So shut down the laptop removed the flash drive.

Now when I boot up it shows the two Mint symbols when booting up, it also plays the login little sound, but all I get is the cursor on the screen.

About the only thing I can do is use the power button to shutdown, restart, suspend and when I press the caplocks button it shows on screen that it's on or off.

Funny thing - when I remove the SSD and boot up with a cloned HDD it works fine.

So I cloned the HDD to the SSD and still the black screen.

Any ideas?

Edit: Just an update. The SSD boots up just fine when plugged into USB. But when you plug it into the laptop directly you get the black screen.

 

[zeridine]

I had somewhat similar and opposite experience. I tried mint and it is great moving away from windows11 and the enshittogenesis going on there at microsoft. And then with me dabbling in dual booting the mint ssd didnt want to cooperate due to my incompetence (I dont work in IT). So I blindfolded myself and tried iceskating up hill with cachyOS. Its great. I still dont really know what I'm doing but linux and the terminal is a blast. cachyOS worked and mint didnt want to. thread necro and adding nothing of value to your problem. hope you got it sorted after 6 months?

 

[OutlawJoseyWales]

I had somewhat similar and opposite experience. I tried mint and it is great moving away from windows11 and the enshittogenesis going on there at microsoft. And then with me dabbling in dual booting the mint ssd didnt want to cooperate due to my incompetence (I dont work in IT). So I blindfolded myself and tried iceskating up hill with cachyOS. Its great. I still dont really know what I'm doing but linux and the terminal is a blast. cachyOS worked and mint didnt want to. thread necro and adding nothing of value to your problem. hope you got it sorted after 6 months?

It had to do with my Nvidia drivers. I think it is older laptops that can give problems.

Some helpful person on the Mint Forum gave me something to insert into Terminal and it removed the drivers, so that it doesn't run the Nvidia card.

Then I had to permanently block a few updates from Update Manager and all is now well.

Been running smoothly ever since.

 

[w1z4rd]

Can you push control + alt + 1 or 2 or 3 (might be f1 or f2 or ff3)

This should switch between the terminals and at least let you login to your terminal