On Mon 8 Dec, 2014 12:33 pm Mayuresh Kathe <[email protected]> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 12:20:51PM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 06:21:00AM +0000, Rigved Rakshit wrote: > > Hello, > > > > > > > > The boot-up menu is shown and when I select the first item; > > Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64, the screen just blanks out. > > > > There are no boot messages, nothing. > > > > The num-lock indicator lights up and then goes out. > > > > After waiting a while, I tried the caps-lock key, it's responsive by way > > of the indicator going on and off. > > > > > > > > Try this: Edit the kernel boot line (on the GRUB boot menu, press the > > letter "e", move the cursor down to the kernel / vmlinuz line) and add this > > one word at the end of the line: nomodeset . Then, follow the on-screen > > instructions to continue the boot process. > > > > Hope this helps! > > No, it didn't help. > Did what you had suggested, pressed "Fn10" after appending "nomodeset" > to that particular line, but nothing again. > > Instead, I tried another trick. > I hit the BIOS boot-device selection key during POST, it showed me a > whole lot of options, one of which was (strangely) labled "debian". > Selected that, and bam, everything works like it should. > > While this might be a good trick, it isn't even a hack, leave alone a > proper solution. > > Any more suggestions would be very welcome. Okay, got that ding-dong to work. All I needed to do was to push the internal (USB) HDD higher up in the boot order, even above the options for Debian and Ubuntu. Strange that HP makes systems which have Debian and Ubuntu as options in the BIOS boot-up section. System booting just fine now. Best Regards, ~Mayuresh -- http:// <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>mm.ilug <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>- <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>bom.org.in <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>/mailman/ <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>listinfo <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>/ <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers>linuxers <http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers> Hi The entries you see are from the uEFI boot list. Most recent Linux bootloaders also create corresponding uefi boot entries. Some more recent systems only support uefi boot and cannot boot using the legacy bios process. Ideally, you should use your bios setup utility to move the uefi entries to the top of the list, and you will save a few seconds of boot up time over the legacy bios boot via the HDD boot sector. Regards Rajeev -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
