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I am using Ubuntu on a fit-pc2 specifications and after upgrading from 10.04 to 12.04 I get a black screen at boot time (before displaying the grub menu) and the computer hangs with no disk activity.

I have managed to boot Ubuntu 12.04 on a live USB key but had to add the following boot options to do so:

  • console=tty1 or console=text
  • acpi=off
  • noapic
  • nomodeset

Using boot-repair, I have tried to add these options to /etc/default/grub (see this pastie log for instance) but I haven't been able to fix the black screen issue.

I have tried many other things such as the workarounds mentioned on the web for PSB-GFX_drivers without any success and also to uncomment GRUB_TERMINAL=console with the result of getting a

No video mode activated

error.

During these tests, I have managed to break /boot/grub/grub.cfg and could then hit grub in command line. This gave me the chance to check that I can boot without problem if I type:

grub> set root=(hd0,1)
grub> linux /vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro acpi=off noapic nomodeset console=tty1
grub> initrd /initrd.img
grub> boot

How can I tell grub to use these options?

Panther
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Eric van der Vlist
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  • I had the same problem. This helped me:

    http://askubuntu.com/questions/131125/ubuntu-12-04-64-bit-after-installation-help

     –  May 08 '12 at 14:27
  • Hmmm... there is no such file as /etc/grub in grub2 and this should probably read /etc/default/grub. If that's the case, I have tried this already and that doesn't work in my case. – Eric van der Vlist May 09 '12 at 18:17
  • What I really don't understand is that if I replace the content of /boot/grub/grub.cfg by the grub commands shown above the machine boots perfectly well but when I add the same kernel options in /etc/default/grub they seem useless. – Eric van der Vlist May 09 '12 at 18:21

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I have tested this solution with my own fitpc2 and it works.

You need to select "Windows XP", not "Other OS" in the bios settings.

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Florent Monay
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After editing /etc/default/grub did you run sudo update-grub?

It doesn't update until you do that.

Sathyajith Bhat
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Paul Sinnett
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My screen lost connection after BIOS had been loaded, I went into BIOS and saw that it was put to DOS and WinXP. I tried switching both to other but nothing worked. I then put it back to DOS and kept the other and it booted with graphics. It works!

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rasmus
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You can check your kernel options by checking the output of dmesg. Look for a line that starts with [0.000000] Kernel command line: . It might not be right at the start, as an example mine is line 145 this boot.

Oyibo
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Chris
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