Just an fyi, if anyone has run into this using the intel Atom boards... Apparently the built in graphics, sometimes come up as a black screen on first boot - after install of DIAL. lspci -nn |grep VGA 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0be2] (rev 09) Apparently rev 09 is problematic - I have another machine with rev 0b 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D2xxx/N2xxx Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0be1] (rev 0b) It works fine... Found the solution here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2073727 i added to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: blacklist gma500_gfx ran sudo update-initramfs -u 73s Mark KC7DMF