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Loading the Linux Kernel Manually Using GRUB on Stage 1.5 can contain any drivers needed and it Next we need to tell Grub which kernel file to load and.

Feb 27, 2013 General Troubleshooting The rescue prompt is presented so the user can provide the path to the grub folder, load External Drive Installs and grub.

GRUB can load the kernel directly, The booting instruction is exactly the same as for NetBSD If that OS uses a special driver for the disks.

Aug 30, 2011 written after 2002 usually contains USB drivers and sudo mkisofs -R -b boot/grub/stage2_eltorito -no-emul-boot -boot-load BootFromUSB last.

GNU GRUB manual. This is the device is a drive specified in the GRUB syntax see Device syntax, and file is an OS file, GRUB will load the.

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Problem: You got a black screen in place of the friendly graphical login screen at the end of the Linux Mint boot sequence.

Display misbehaving presentation includes:

Blincking cursor at top-left corner

Centered garbled lines of colorful squares

A plain black screen but this may be related to other issues

A kind but sticky message that X11 has re-started n times in n minutes

The Linux Mint rotating in process icon

Don t tell me why but I have found this issue in several installations or reinstallations of Linux Mint and other distributions in previously working systems. It is related to failed detection of hardware, or by upgraded drivers nouveau, spring 2011. Current video cards are willing to generate resolutions/frequencies over your monitor s capabilites.

You will end your first install and/or reboot procedure, with a black screen after several normal messages or disk activity just before getting the normal user prompt it will never come out.

It may even happen with the installation CD/DVD of some new distributions Mint Mate 16, 17

You will notice that the computer is working fine as it reboots gracefully if you click Ctrl Alt Del meaning that you have a working system but with a video problem. It mimicks a computer hanged dead but is not the case.

If the monitor is smart enough it will complain about wrong frequency or no signal.

Here is a simple and short fix that will allow to boot and configure the system from a graphical user interface In Linux Mint will be Gnome.

Reboot and wait to see the initial boot screen of GRUB with a list of operating systems. Tap a cursor key to avoid automatic boot.

Select your choice pe. LInux Mint with the cursor and then press the tab key to get the full boot grub commad line. Don t be afraid: is a long command. Avoid modifying it.

Go to the line starting with the word linux and ending with the words: quiet splash

Add one of the following . .modeset 0 parameter at the end of the long grub command line as is type 1 space before. Use the parameter related to the brand or chipset of your video card. pe.: use nouveau or nvidia for nvidia based cards proprietary driver, just nv in some linux distributions, nouveau driver is the default in Mint , use radeon for amd/ati cards, i915 for intel based motherboards,, ,, These are the most common examples.

nvidia.modeset 0

nouveau.modeset 0

radeon.modeset 0

i915.modeset 0

r128.modeset 0 for very old ati rage 128 cards

If you don t know the brand you may use just one word: nomodeset

Your will find the full range of drivers and more info at Xorg.org wiki

Press Ctrl X to boot with this added parameter. This parameter will not be saved, just used in this single boot and nothing is damaged. To cancel without changes press Esc.

Hopefully, the system will boot into a default graphical environment and you will be able to install/reinstall driver or configuration packages. In my case I solved my issues in a old nvidia cards Quadro NVS 280 and geforce 7300LE using a legacy nvidia 96 or 173 drivers, respectively, in place of nouveau. And nvidia-settings package.

Desperate Mode. If you cannot get a graphical user interface with this parameter and/or an Monitor frequency error there is an alternate way as always in linux. This situation may happen if you have replaced your video card, or the the driver needs additional parameters I suffered it with a intel chipset

Use a lower resolution but highly compatible vesa driver. In the same line described in step 3 add this second video mode parameter grub_gfxmode. You may use one of them

grub_gfxmode 1280x1024x24 in most large modern monitors

grub_gfxmode 1024x768x16 1024x768 is safer in older or smaller systems

Many other settings are possible as: grub_gfxmode vesa or vga

For those brave enough, more detailed help may be found at Grub2 help in Ubuntu

Solved Update 2014: My Mint Mate LTS 17.0 re-install Nvidia Quadro FX1400 dual monitor 19 1280x1024x24

Let any Linux distribution mature : I waited 1 month before installing this new Mint version. Mate is just for me, and I will try to stick to this LTS. Live is too short to re-install too many times.

Black screen or color squares in the first boot after install. Only able to run a text login with nomodeset. Many restarts tried, but Nouveau was taking control over display even after blacklisting it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: Ough.

Solution as in this tutorial:

While system booting menu Grub type e to edit the first grub line Linux Mint

add to the linux parameters line 2 flags: nomodeset grub_gfxmode 1280x1024x24

You will boot with a Linux command line. Don t be annoyed by error screens. Keep calm.

Just in case Linux is still maturing update your system to get last fixes this is the first run of the recent distribution. . Just do it.

apt-get update

apt-get upgrade

Install nvidia propietary drivers: apt-get install nvidia-304 the newest version supported by my oldie card

Accept installation

Just reboot.

Done it has autodeleted my custom xorg.conf file, that I copied from a pendrive: not really needed

Dual monitor running fine with nvidia propietary drivers. Again, what s up with nouveau.

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