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#26 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] can't get splash screen UEFI install (only scrolling text) » 2017-05-12 19:52:27

hughparker1
fsmithred wrote:

At the boot menu, press 'e' to edit the boot entry. Use the arrow keys to navigate to the linux line and add the word, nomodeset to the line. Then ctrl-x to boot.

Thanks for quick reply.  I did as instructed and it has successfully booted to the desktop, looks like Xfce.  I will install it later tonight as I need to go out now. I will come back tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

here are details for my laptop...

DELL Inspiron 5559
Processor: IntelCore i7-6500U CPU 2 Cores, 4 Logical Processors
Integrated Graphics Processor: Intel HD Graphics 520
Discrete Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon R5 M335
Drive: Crucial CT750MX3 SSD size: 750GB
Memory: 16GB

I have a couple of questions...
Q1. Is the problem caused by my graphics card?

Q2. Do you think I will need to add the word nomodeset to the Linux line after it is installed? I currently dualboot along with Debian Xfce and Windows 10.

Thanks again for your recommendation.

#27 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] can't get splash screen UEFI install (only scrolling text) » 2017-05-12 19:42:05

hughparker1
fsmithred wrote:
hughparker1 wrote:

I checked the file I downloaded with sha256sum

$ sha256sum -c --ignore-missing devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso.SHA256SUMS

hugh@sony-solus ~/Downloads $ sha256sum -c --ignore-missing devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso.SHA256SUMS
devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso: OK
hugh@sony-solus ~/Downloads $

I don't understand what you did here. Where did devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso.SHA256SUMS come from? You could not have downloaded it, because there's no such file on the server. All the sums are in one file. Did you look at the output of the command to see that it matched the number I posted?

thanks for feedback.  I downloaded the sha256sums file from the server and renamed it to make it clear what it was for as I had other files with similar names, here is the contents of the file...

f7f5c54394c663e00e90671fcbd5f49da0b00a813ed842a8c113a08fcdf729a8  devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64-live.iso
ac38f0c7d983f8ce93f7b261274fef30823022707b96fc1c09f6b9a1b0c3709d  devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso
bd72961ddd44e8ce61eaf3fa680c268a18db062daf80e8549612eec6addba971  devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_i386-live.iso

I checked the code is the same

#28 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] can't get splash screen UEFI install (only scrolling text) » 2017-05-12 14:15:53

hughparker1
fsmithred wrote:

No, I haven't seen that except when I was trying to boot to console. You should not need to log in to the desktop - it should happen automatically.
It's an isohybrid image, so anything that just copies it bit by bit to the whole device should work. I don't know what Mint or Rufus does, but if Rufus needs to know that it's for uefi, then it's probably doing something about that, and it should not. If you have a running linux, you can just use dd.

Please check the following commands:

tty          #which tty are you connected to?
ps ax |grep slim       # is the display manager running?
sudo runlevel
cat .xsession-errors
sudo less /var/log/Xorg.0.log    # look for lines starting with EE

Try ctrl-alt-F7 (maybe F8 or F9) to see if that gets you to the desktop.

If slim is not running, try starting it:

sudo service slim start

Check the sha256sum to make sure the download was good.

$ sha256sum devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso
ac38f0c7d983f8ce93f7b261274fef30823022707b96fc1c09f6b9a1b0c3709d  devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso

Thanks for quick reply, here is the output from the commands...

http://i.imgur.com/cMShUXE.jpg

also output from sudo less /var/log/Xorg.0.log    # with lines starting with EE

http://i.imgur.com/87PEEzb.jpg   

I checked the file I downloaded with sha256sum

$ sha256sum -c --ignore-missing devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso.SHA256SUMS

hugh@sony-solus ~/Downloads $ sha256sum -c --ignore-missing devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso.SHA256SUMS
devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso: OK
hugh@sony-solus ~/Downloads $

so file looks good. not sure what I'm doing wrong. Does the output from the commands tell us anything?  I'm not an expert on linux to be honest, still learning I'm afraid.  Any advice would be appreciated.

#29 Installation » [SOLVED] can't get splash screen UEFI install (only scrolling text) » 2017-05-12 10:31:37

hughparker1
Replies: 18

Hi I have managed boot the latest image 'devuan_jessie_1.0.0-RC2_amd64_uefi-live.iso' on an old BIOS/MBR laptop but having problems getting to the usual splash screen when booting in a new UEFI/GPT laptop.

When it boots, it immediately displays lots of text then stops abruptly and never gets into the splash screen, here is a screenshot of where it stops ... http://imgur.com/a/S2ipN  I entered the usual '$ ls /sys/firmware' command and it does show 'efi' in the output so it is booting in EFI mode, it's just not giving me the splash screen to run the live desktop

I have burned it in Linux Mint using it's default USB writing tool which usually gives me no problems and also in Windows using Rufus with Partition scheme & target system type: GPT partition scheme for UEFI.

Has anyone seen this before?  Any help would be appreciated, as I am keen to try Devuan to see what it's like when installed.

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