Debian booting to black screen
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I just finished upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, and after a reboot, my system ran grub, goes through some checks and stuff after loading the kernel. It then says:
Welcome Debian 8 servername Tty1 Login:
But the screen goes black before I can do anything. I can enter recovery mode, and have been trying some things.
I ran
apt-get updateandupgradeand it shows no new downloadsI have tried running grub with
nomodesetDrivers installed on my GPU are
gflrx
In journalctl -xb I see this error:
Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth
This guide says to modify my fstab file, but I only have three devices in there: /, usr, and swap. None of those correspond to a CD drive.
I can also run as sysvinit which looks like it's running fine, then gets to apache2 and the screen goes black.
What should I do?
debian fstab
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
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I just finished upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, and after a reboot, my system ran grub, goes through some checks and stuff after loading the kernel. It then says:
Welcome Debian 8 servername Tty1 Login:
But the screen goes black before I can do anything. I can enter recovery mode, and have been trying some things.
I ran
apt-get updateandupgradeand it shows no new downloadsI have tried running grub with
nomodesetDrivers installed on my GPU are
gflrx
In journalctl -xb I see this error:
Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth
This guide says to modify my fstab file, but I only have three devices in there: /, usr, and swap. None of those correspond to a CD drive.
I can also run as sysvinit which looks like it's running fine, then gets to apache2 and the screen goes black.
What should I do?
debian fstab
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17
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I just finished upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, and after a reboot, my system ran grub, goes through some checks and stuff after loading the kernel. It then says:
Welcome Debian 8 servername Tty1 Login:
But the screen goes black before I can do anything. I can enter recovery mode, and have been trying some things.
I ran
apt-get updateandupgradeand it shows no new downloadsI have tried running grub with
nomodesetDrivers installed on my GPU are
gflrx
In journalctl -xb I see this error:
Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth
This guide says to modify my fstab file, but I only have three devices in there: /, usr, and swap. None of those correspond to a CD drive.
I can also run as sysvinit which looks like it's running fine, then gets to apache2 and the screen goes black.
What should I do?
debian fstab
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
I just finished upgrading to Jessie from Wheezy, and after a reboot, my system ran grub, goes through some checks and stuff after loading the kernel. It then says:
Welcome Debian 8 servername Tty1 Login:
But the screen goes black before I can do anything. I can enter recovery mode, and have been trying some things.
I ran
apt-get updateandupgradeand it shows no new downloadsI have tried running grub with
nomodesetDrivers installed on my GPU are
gflrx
In journalctl -xb I see this error:
Failed at step EXEC spawning /bin/plymouth
This guide says to modify my fstab file, but I only have three devices in there: /, usr, and swap. None of those correspond to a CD drive.
I can also run as sysvinit which looks like it's running fine, then gets to apache2 and the screen goes black.
What should I do?
debian fstab
debian fstab
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
1
edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:36
Community♦
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1
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
asked Apr 3 '15 at 16:13
bforcerbforcer
113
113
Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17
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Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17
Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17
Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17
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Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:
- in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with
lsmod - load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both
insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.modandinsmod normal) - return to normal grub module with
normaland select the OS you wish to load - overwrite GRUB settings
Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.
answered Apr 15 '17 at 13:20
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Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:
- in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with
lsmod - load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both
insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.modandinsmod normal) - return to normal grub module with
normaland select the OS you wish to load - overwrite GRUB settings
Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.
answered Apr 15 '17 at 13:20
paranaparana
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Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:
- in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with
lsmod - load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both
insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.modandinsmod normal) - return to normal grub module with
normaland select the OS you wish to load - overwrite GRUB settings
Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.
answered Apr 15 '17 at 13:20
paranaparana
112
add a comment |
Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:
- in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with
lsmod - load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both
insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.modandinsmod normal) - return to normal grub module with
normaland select the OS you wish to load - overwrite GRUB settings
Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.
answered Apr 15 '17 at 13:20
paranaparana
112
Not quite a solution, but temporary workaround which enabled me to reach the login screen:
- in GRUB, open command line and check which modules are loaded with
lsmod - load the normal module (strangely enough, for me it worked after i had tried to load with both
insmod (hd0,5)/boot/grub/normal.modandinsmod normal) - return to normal grub module with
normaland select the OS you wish to load - overwrite GRUB settings
Haven't managed to locate the root cause of this issue though but it vaguely hints that something messes up GRUB.
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Do you have Plymouth installed? wiki.debian.org/plymouth
– Emmanuel Rosa
Apr 15 '17 at 18:17