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opadfnezig

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Registered: 2021-02-18

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Black screen instead of GRUB

Today I've tried to reinstall system 3 times, and result was the same: black screen instead of GRUB on boot.
- booting in UEFI mode (at least bios said that)
- tried 3 different ways to install system (copy old system using dd + configure boot manually, manual installation and arhinstall)
- numlock is working, so seems like system is not freezed
- holding shift/escape while booting to grub(idk actually what's happening there) doesn't do anything as well as perssing it after 5 mins of waiting
- waiting also doesn't do anything

Hardware:
- motherboard Z420
- e5 2687 v2
- nvidia GTX 1070 (yes, might be gpu problem)

There is no integrated gpu.

So, I just installed system with all the booting stuff, did a reboot and wasn't unable to boot. It happened each time, then I thought that I might have failed installation somewhere, checked everything(but it looked OK), and tried to reinstall. Now the system on my hard drive is installed by archinstall, there was nothing I could fail, but it doesn't work.
LifeUSB + arch-chroot is now the only way to do something to this system. I didn't install any of nvidia drivers (at least manually), and don't think that matters much cause I didn't install any GUI.

Also,  tomorrow I'll try to use different gpu/ move drive to entire different system, maybe it's hardware problem.

Please, help me to solve this issue. I've already spend on it like 3 days 12h each. I'm about to try installing ubuntu, but afraid that it won't change anything..

seth

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Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/GRUB#G … not_loaded ?

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opadfnezig

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Registered: 2021-02-18

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Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

Nope. I've tried but it didn't work.

And, forgot to say. Sometimes I'm getting error like this while booting:
Fatal MCA error.
MLC error detected CPU 0
Internal timeout error - watchdog timer (3    strike)

seth

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Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

While *booting* the USB key or the installed system?
Is your problem actually the bootloader or the kernel?

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opadfnezig

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Registered: 2021-02-18

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Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

This kind of error only while booting from USB.
It seems to be bootloader, journalctl -b says there's no entries.
Tried to install ubuntu, but error happened while installing. USB key is 100% valid, used it like a week ago on different hardware without any problem.

opadfnezig

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Registered: 2021-02-18

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Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

I'll try to do something to hardware, cause it looks to me like hardware problem.

Last edited by opadfnezig (2023-09-12 07:17:29)

opadfnezig

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Registered: 2021-02-18

Posts: 10

Re: Black screen instead of GRUB

It was a hardware problem. System for some reasons doesn't work anymore, as well as cpu in different motherboard and different cpu in this motherboard.
Changed cpu+board and now everything is OK.
From the beginning cpu was damaged, 1/4 mem channels worked, it could be damaged somewhere else, so it couldn't boot.