Solus booting to black empty screen

[deleted] completely agree. when things get fubar'd and tty is all you got---those are things that helped me. and i've destroyed installed solus (self-stupidity; feeling my way around) a few times.

At least (in my opinion), Solus is easier to reinstall than Windows (because no one wants to just run Windows, you have to install programs, right?)

dbarron much easier across the board! Win+43 elements zzz---

Solus-Fan startx is not used. Need to use systemd to start the display manager.

I had and still have the same issue of booting to black screen But if I just wait for about a minute or so it suddenly starts the login screen and then all is normal.

I seem to remember some bug (taking forever to start the desktop) recently over at manjaro that was tracked down to grub I think.

I've had this before after crashes. It fakes you out, you wait, and boom it loads. I'm not sure how it worked itself out it was so long ago. But it worked itself out. Glad you have your system back.

Brent, sounds like you're describing an fsck (which happens after non-graceful shutdowns).

dbarron Possible, but go up to original post, I've had that boot sequence when update crashed (or I crashed it). Over 2 years ago though. Back then I had plymouth installed and it did go into fsck as I watched. I didn't understand the gibberish then. Poster softronaut did not mention a crash. I made the connection anyways. I think the reason I post 50% of my responses is been there/done that but it wasn't the Official Partly Line that got me out of a lot of trouble, it was that guy or girl with a left field suggestion that worked alongside with dev advice. The "this seems pointless but I'll try suggestion." I try really hard to fill that pointless role as others have done for me!::

hah Been there..and lots of those oddball ideas worked (in some cases, no idea why/how).

Xarius new to solus. Since there is no grub menu, how would one choose to boot with an older kernel?