Hi there,
I installed Debian 7.2.0 (amd64) on a Toshiba Satellite C870D-121 with the graphic installer. It already has Windows 8.1 installed on another partition, and for Debian I'm not using the same partition of course. Actually, the Debian installation is replacing a Ubuntu 13.10 installation that was working fine.
After choosing Debian in the Grub menu, I can see the boot log entries adding and then the screen clears and all I get is a blinking cursor. After a while, some '^@^@^@' symbols appears. Of course I can Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get a virtual Terminal in order to login and try to investigate the problem, but so far I haven't been able to reliably identify the problem.
Any idea about where to start?
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Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
Well, most of the time I start in /var/log so that if I read a post after searching the forum, something might ring a bell.Any idea about where to start?
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Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
Graphics issue?
https://wiki.debian.org/GraphicsCard
How about pressing E key at Grub2 menu and adding "nomodeset" to kernel option (a line starting with "linux") and booting by pressing ctrl+x ?
https://wiki.debian.org/GraphicsCard
How about pressing E key at Grub2 menu and adding "nomodeset" to kernel option (a line starting with "linux") and booting by pressing ctrl+x ?
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Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
Thanks to bw123 and kiyop.
Looking at the log files I could confirm it was a graphic issue. Installing the firmware-linux-non-free solved the problem.
Looking at the log files I could confirm it was a graphic issue. Installing the firmware-linux-non-free solved the problem.
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Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
@kiyop
that worked for me!! much thanks for the tip!
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that worked for me!! much thanks for the tip!
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Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
Congratulations on your success! I am happy to know that my suggestion solved your problemorendebian wrote:@kiyop
that worked for me!! much thanks for the tip!
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If you want to permanently add "nomodeset" to the menuentry used by grub2 menu, add "nomodeset" between the double quotations (") of a line starting with
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=
in /etc/default/grub by the following commands executed with root privilege
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nano /etc/default/grub
And finally
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update-grub
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Re: Stuck with blinking cursor while booting
@Dorothy231
Have you done a search of this forum? http://forums.debian.net/search.php?key ... ing+cursor
Have you done a search of this forum? http://forums.debian.net/search.php?key ... ing+cursor