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#1 2013-07-02 07:57:18
- psycho_tea_drinker
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[SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Hello everyone.
This is my second time installing Arch and somehow I've messed it up.
After installation and a reboot I get a black screen with the word GRUB in the top left corner - it seems to be hanging at that point.
fdisk - l / Lsblk output:
http://imgur.com/2FK9aD7
Thank you.
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#2 2013-07-02 07:58:29
- Scimmia
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
go back and check the section about configuring Grub.
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#3 2013-07-02 10:46:06
- Ashren
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Are you sure you are not getting the grub interactive prompt?
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#4 2013-07-02 12:02:54
- psycho_tea_drinker
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Are you sure you are not getting the grub interactive prompt?
grub >
Does not seem like it.
GRUB _
Thats the output.
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#5 2013-07-02 14:14:37
- teateawhy
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Do you have a hp laptop? I recently ran into this issue when trying to boot from my GRUB usb stick on a friend's laptop.
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#6 2013-07-02 14:29:02
- fledermann
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Yeah, that happened to me too. I was using a GUID partition table (BIOS system) and somehow grub only showed the word GRUB followed by a blinking prompt - no input was possible. After a few hours of triple-checking the grub configuration, I decided to just reinstall with a MBR partition table. And it worked right away.
GPT in combination with BIOS is known to cause problems on some hardware. So, if you're on a BIOS system, here's some info.
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#7 2013-07-02 15:06:05
- psycho_tea_drinker
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Yeah, that happened to me too. I was using a GUID partition table (BIOS system) and somehow grub only showed the word GRUB followed by a blinking prompt - no input was possible. After a few hours of triple-checking the grub configuration, I decided to just reinstall with a MBR partition table. And it worked right away.
GPT in combination with BIOS is known to cause problems on some hardware. So, if you're on a BIOS system, here's some info.
Thank you! I installed it last time with MBR instead and it worked fine so I'm guessing thats the problem. Will report later.
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#8 2013-07-03 12:21:41
- psycho_tea_drinker
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Re: [SOLVED] Post installation I get a black screen with the word GRUB
Yup it works fine with when using MBR. Thanks everyone!
If it helps anyone in future - I was using virtualbox 4.2.12.
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