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#1 2024-08-14 08:38:45

silver-lasombra
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[Solved]Black screen after grub in vmware

I followed the installation guide in arch wiki in Vmware Workstation17.5.
After

arch-chroot /mnt

I installed grub, did these:

pacman -S grub efibootmgr os-prober
grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=/boot --bootloader-id=ARCH
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

then reboot, grub came out normally, but then only black screen left.
The last screen before black screen is here:
last before black

I tried to install linux-zen and linux-lts, and then updated grub.
Only linux-lts can boot:
lts fastfetch
linux-zen remained black screen like linux.

Although I can just use linux-lts, I still want to know how it happens and how to solve. But only black is there, and I don't know how to get error log when it can't boot and enter tty.

Last edited by silver-lasombra (2024-08-19 09:00:28)

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#2 2024-08-14 10:38:38

V1del
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Re: [Solved]Black screen after grub in vmware

Afaik there's a  kernel bug in 6.10.4 with the vmware module, probably same issue as: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=298491

After rebooting into LTS from a blackscreen you can check

sudo journalctl -b-1

for the log of the previous boot, but I strongly suggest you follow the linked thread.

Last edited by V1del (2024-08-14 10:39:50)

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#3 2024-08-15 01:01:33

silver-lasombra
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Re: [Solved]Black screen after grub in vmware

OK, so downgrade to 6.10.3 should be work. I decide to keep in LTS kernal to avoid accidental update. Thanks.
By the way, should I add a 'solved' to this topic?

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#4 2024-08-15 08:29:20

silver-lasombra
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Re: [Solved]Black screen after grub in vmware

I tried other Linux using 6.10.4 kernel:

EndeavourOS with cinnamon works well:
EndeavourOS

Manjaro with cinnamon, then use Convert Manjaro to Arch Script to convert to Arch. It also works well:
Manjaro2Arch

So confusing......

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#5 2024-08-19 09:03:49

silver-lasombra
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Re: [Solved]Black screen after grub in vmware

after run 

sudo pacman -U https://pkgbuild.com/\~gromit/linux-bisection-kernels/linux-6.10.4.arch2-1.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

linux kernel runs well.

By the way, after I enable 3D acceleation, all kernels, including linux, linux-zen, linux-lts, linux-hardened, all work well.

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