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grubenm

Member

Registered: 2014-02-25

Posts: 35

UEFI Blank Screen after Selecting Gummiboot Entry; Kernel Upgraded

Decided to start my own thread in the hopes of learning how to approach this issue; after upgrading to 3.13.6-1 on my HP Envy (UEFI, gummiboot), booting into Arch results in a blank screen for about 3 minutes, after which time my HP simply boots into Windows 8.1.

I have attempted appending

nomodeset

and

i915.modeset=0

to the end of the boot options (accessible by pressing 'e'), and also tried changing

initramfs-linux.img

to

initramfs-linux-fallback.img

in the same entry,  but all failed to help.

I've also rolled back according to the instructions on the Kernel Panics wiki to kernels which I previously successfully booted from (3.13.4-1, then 3.12.9-1), but both failed to rid my HP Envy of the blank screen after selecting the Arch Linux entry from gummiboot.  Thus, I suspect that 3.13.6-1 may not be the sole cause (if even a cause at all) of my screen blanking.

I'm unfortunately unsure of what troubleshooting steps to take next, or of what additional information would be useful to post in this thread.

ijanos

Member

From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: UEFI Blank Screen after Selecting Gummiboot Entry; Kernel Upgraded

Hi. I have a HP Envy and with gummiboot sometimes it booted without a problem sometimes I got a black screen, randomly. I switched to GRUB2 and now it boots every time.

Also note, that the HP UEFI firmware is really buggy. For me it decided to rewrite the efiboot order on reboots... If there is a BIOS/firmware upgrade for you machine upgrading may help, but only upgrade if nothing else helps and don't upgrade if everything works!

grubenm

Member

Registered: 2014-02-25

Posts: 35

Re: UEFI Blank Screen after Selecting Gummiboot Entry; Kernel Upgraded

I'll keep that bugginess in mind, and will start looking for firmware upgrades in a week or so if nothing else has fixed booting.

In the meantime, I'm able to boot from a USB install stick and chroot into the Arch partition, so I'm able to collect whatever data that might yield and perform Pacman downgrades.