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How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

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How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#1 Post by kerryhall »

When my system boots, I see the grub menu, then I press enter, then a black screen until the lightdm login prompt a few minutes later.

This occasionally causes problems, for instance, if some recent kernel upgrade didn't work, my system will just sit at a black screen for 10 minutes until I realize something is amiss and reboot.

How can I configure grub so that when it boots I get text output to the screen?

I'm using the proprietary nvidia driver from the repos, if that matters.

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Re: How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#2 Post by arochester »

Try editing your Boot. See if it contains "quiet splash" and remove that.
It's useful to disable quiet splash temporarily, when you wish to troubleshoot boot problems. Because then you get to see all of the boot messages. So you have to remove the parameters quiet splash if you want to see the boot messages. Don't forget to run sudo update-grub after removing them.
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Re: How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#3 Post by Uptorn »

If I recall correctly, it should be possible to enter the text interface by pressing tab when grub is starting.

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Re: How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#4 Post by kerryhall »

I do not have "quiet splash" in the boot parameters.

I do see text flash very quickly after boot starts, but then it is replaced with a black screen.

How do I debug this?

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Re: How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#5 Post by NorthEast »

kerryhall wrote:
I'm using the proprietary nvidia driver from the repos, if that matters.
It may matter. If you reconfigure start up to boot to a text prompt to log in, you could see if the black screen appears. If, not, it's likely a graphics card matter. If black screen does appear, it's likely a hardware matter. Another thing to try is to replace the nvidia driver with the nouveau, boot and watch for the black screen. If it doesn't appear, then it's likely the nvidia driver.

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Re: How do I configure grub to show text when booting?

#6 Post by kent_dorfman766 »

by default the "quiet" is enabled on the kernel boot line. I believe the default timeout is 5seconds. You can edit these properties permanently in /etc/default/grub and then grub-mkconfig > /boot/grub/grub.cfg

The nvidia drivers are not active until after the kernel boots and the nvidia.ko module is loaded, so it shouldn't play a part in anything visible under grub.

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