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On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 14:23 +0000, George Parker wrote: > I reckon this is related to Tom's recent tales of woe. I've just cured > an intermittent fault on a desktop PC by putting in a new motherboard > and processor, an AMD A4-3400 which has integrated Radeon graphics. I > stuck in the latest Mint release and booted and blow me, no display > after boot. Mint does not have a nice screen to look at during boot, > blank by design, and as soon as the first few lines of text disappear, > the monitor loses sync and the little green light goes out, never to > re-appear. > > I tried with several different versions of mint all with the same > result. This was with an old AG Neovo monitor so I tried a modern LG > monitor, same result. I tried using the failsafe install version but > all I got was "initramfs: unable to find a medium containing a file > system" from several different distros. > > Many boots later I found that PCLinuxOS, Puppy Slacko, Debian, Mepis 8.5 > and 3 versions of Ubuntu would boot with a display. No Mint version or > open Suse will boot with a display. I installed Debian but it wouldn't > install grub or lilo for some reason so i now have Kubuntu installed. > But I much prefer Mint. Anybody know any boot tweaks to put into a bog > standard VGA mode, perhaps? when it fails can you use Ctrl F1 to get a terminal or is this broke as well? does this work? To start into safe mode (Recovery Mode) hold down the Shift key as the computer starts to boot. If holding the Shift key doesn't display the menu press the Esc key repeatedly to display the GRUB 2 menu. From there you can choose the recovery option. and from the grub pages GRUB VGA Modes GRUB allows you to choose the VGA definition it uses when booting. (Note: this does not affect the definition in Xorg). You need to add the option vga=xxx on the kernel stanza in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst. Of course, replace xxx with the video mode you want. Your kernel stanza will look like this: kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-686 root=/dev/sda0 ro vga=791 Here is a list of the available video modes: Colour depth 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1400x1050 1600x1200 8 (256) 769 771 773 775 15 (32K) 784 787 790 793 16 (65K) 785 788 791 794 834 884 24 (16M) 786 789 792 795 pick a number from 769 to 884 > > BTW, the main reason I don't use Debian is that I can never find > reliable repositories for their software. > > George > -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq