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wilberfan

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From: So. Cal

Registered: 2010-12-18

Posts: 264

Black screen with two horizontal blue lines (top and bottom)

I had an existing dual-boot (arch/windows) system that was working great.    I had to re-install Windows a few months ago, and left the existing Arch partition alone.   I've been struggling for a couple of days to a) get a boot screen back, and b) get Arch to actually boot.

I finally got systemd-boot to giver me a boot screen.  I have an entry for the standard Arch kernel, an entry for a custom Linux-cd-ivybridge kernel, and the Windows install.

Windows boots great.   When I select either Arch entry, I just get a black screen with a horizontal blue line top and bottom.

http://i.imgur.com/7nnrjvt.jpg

What's interesting is that when I UEFI boot from the latest .iso (via a USB stick) I see those same blue lines for a second or two--but then followed by all the informational boot text (and those lovely green "OK"'s).

I have zero idea of what the issue could be.

It IS a UEFI system. 

Here are my /boot/loader/entries/  entries:

title		Arch Linux
linux		/vmlinuz-linux
initrd		/intel-ucode.img
initrd		/initramfs-linux.img
#options		root=/dev/sdb3 rw
options		root=PARTUUID=e9df3aa3-0ba8-4f17-bee1-a7d045a7e0d7 rw 

title		Arch Linux-CK-ivybridge
linux		/vmlinuz-linux-ck-ivybridge
initrd		/intel-ucode.img
initrd		/initramfs-linux-ck-ivybridge.img
#options		root=/dev/sdb3 rw
options		root=PARTUUID=e9df3aa3-0ba8-4f17-bee1-a7d045a7e0d7 rw

Any thoughts?   Thanks in advance.

Here is the contents of the /dev/sda1 partition:

drwxr-xr-x    5 root     root          1024 Aug 30  2016 EFI
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      23073294 May 29 19:30 initramfs-linux-ck-ivybridge-fallback.img
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       5980123 May 29 19:30 initramfs-linux-ck-ivybridge.img
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root      23103473 May 29 19:30 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       5984633 May 29 19:30 initramfs-linux.img
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        987648 May 13 09:38 intel-ucode.img
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root          1024 May 29 18:20 loader
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       5044496 May 22 04:55 vmlinuz-linux
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       4954384 May 26 20:03 vmlinuz-linux-ck-ivybridge

# blkid /dev/sdb3
/dev/sdb3: LABEL="arch64" UUID="aa179f13-7e2e-4d95-8845-f5d93f840c0e" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="e9df3aa3-0ba8-4f17-bee1-a7d045a7e0d7"

# cat /media/sdb3/etc/fstab
# /dev/sdb3 LABEL=arch64
UUID=aa179f13-7e2e-4d95-8845-f5d93f840c0e	/         	ext4      	rw,relatime,data=ordered0 1

# /dev/sda1
UUID=AA37-F581      	/boot/efi     	vfat      	rw,relatime,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,errors=remount-ro	0 2

# /dev/sda4  Win-D
/dev/sda4 		/mnt/Win-D	ntfs-3g		defaults	0 0

# tmpfs
tmpfs	/home/wilberfan/.cache	tmpfs	noatime,nodev,nosuid,size=400M	0	0

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Hey, be nice...I'm new at this!

jones

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Registered: 2013-03-14

Posts: 276

Re: Black screen with two horizontal blue lines (top and bottom)

Maybe my thread helps?
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=226520

In any way, the kernel jus tgot updated to 4.11.3-1. So maybe, after chrooting into your system, the next update will take care of the problem? It might be worth checking out.