New EFI Laptop: After restart, Ubuntu boots to black screen?

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Published on 2012-04-29T02:30:47Z Indexed on 2012/06/09 22:47 UTC
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So, I've got this new laptop (Acer Aspire 5560 15") that's doing a funny thing..

If I cold booth the machine, everything is great! I see the grub menu, and Ubuntu 12.04 loads just fine.

If I reboot within Ubuntu, I see the BIOS screen, but then nothing. No grub menu, no hard drive activity except for just a blip.

I noticed that when installing Ubuntu this time, I had to create an EFI boot partition -- something I'm not used to. And I'm guessing that it has something to do with the issue. Could be totally wrong.

Any ideas?

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