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enter image description hereThis is a weird problem. My machine has an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 and, having recently reinstalled with Ubuntu 16.04-3, I now cannot see any of the characters of the boot messages. I have encrypted file systems so need to enter the password as the machine boots.

I already knew that I needed to change the boot parameters to get the keyboard to work with the encrypted file systems so have nosplash set. I also have nomodeset since there seems to be a known problem with the 1070 graphics card.

What I'm seeing is a blank screen but not a really blank screen (I said it was weird). Rather than trying to describe this I have taken a photo of my monitor.

As you can see there are black lines where there should be characters. I can type in my password and the machine boots fine, I just can't see any of the boot messages.

I'm using the NVIDIA closed source driver version 384.59.

Speakjava
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  • See this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/791439/trouble-installing-ubuntu-16-04-since-i-got-gtx-1070 – Redbob Aug 23 '17 at 15:37

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Edit your GRUB config and change quiet splash to text. To do this during boot, press e to edit, or to do it after you booted use:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub
sudo update-grub

then reboot. This will boot showing you all messages instead of the splash screen.

user8292439
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  • Unfortunately, this did not work. I tried text both with and without nomodeset and got the same effect, just obviously more text that I couldn't read. I did find the answer, which I have posted here. – Speakjava Aug 23 '17 at 17:09
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Solved! I removed the following line from my grub.cfg file:

gfxmode $linux_gfx_mode

And now I can see all the boot messages!

Speakjava
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