GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 567644
Live CD boots to black screen
Last modified: 2010-12-29 04:18:58 UTC
Please describe the problem: When I enter Live CD I select the Default settings, then it lodas some stuff on black screen and then screen goes black. Steps to reproduce: 1. Insert the Live CD 2. Select Default Settings Actual results: It gives me Black screen Expected results: To enter GUI Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: I'm using 1680 x 1050 monitor, AMD 64 X2 6000+, 2GB RAM, 8800GTS 320, GIGABYTE GA-M55S-S3 F12
I can attest to a similar issue. Live CD continues to selection screen, no matter which options i choose: http://apcmag.com/images/apcapc/howto/dualboot_vista_xp_xp_first/media_1221305023537.jpg Failsafe, graphics safe, and even default fail. The failure occurs when it tries to load the video driver. And my monitor shows "out of range." I would imagine failsafe and even graphics safe modes would prevent this behavior. Either way, I've read in another thread that reverting to gparted 0.3.3-5 might rememdy the situation. I'll report back with my findings. System specs: AMD Phenom II x2 550 BE (3.1ghz) Optiquest Q9B-2 Monitor (max rez 1280x1024, I believe) MSI Radeon HD 4870 Video Card MSI 770-C45 Motherboard 4 GB PC-10666 ocz fatality dual channel
What pop's on the most recent live cd and one example of a safe graphics boot: [URL=http://img196.imageshack.us/i/38707239.jpg/][IMG]http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/1839/38707239.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Boot from safe graphics fails at this point [URL=http://img691.imageshack.us/i/17254592.jpg/][IMG]http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/7393/17254592.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Gparted 0.3.3-5, which appears to be gentoo in aspects, and allows frame buffer support (i saw the penguin and colored text) yet still fails booting. [URL=http://img44.imageshack.us/i/15400014.jpg/][IMG]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8135/15400014.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] After the gparted 0.3.3-5 fails, I continue, based on the promts...and type "startx" which leads me to this failure: [URL=http://img44.imageshack.us/i/15400014.jpg/][IMG]http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/8135/15400014.th.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I'm thinking it may have something to do with my unsupported graphics card? Who knows? Any help appreciated.
The old versions of GParted, such as 0.3.3-5 were based on gentoo and are no longer maintained. New versions are based on Debian. The newest version of GParted Live at the moment is 0.4.8-1. Is this the version you tested with? If not would you be able to try this latest version? GParted 0.4.8-1 is based on the Debian Sid repository (2009/Nov/03).
I too am experiencing this problem, and with the very latest stable version. I have tried a few different graphics options but always end up with either a black screen or a black screen with a cursor (static) top left. and 'num-lock' is unresponsive. incidentally other 'live' cd's work fine eg clonezilla rough spec - phenom 9600 black, pair of radion 4850's, 4gb ram & a bunch of HDD's - if it helps to know more just say.
How about give gparted live 0.6.1-2 a try? Please let us know the results. Steven.
OK, I'll give it a go tonight & let you know
Sorry for the delay. I tried the beta as suggested and it also fails to boot fully, however it did give the following msg when in bummed out.... // Fatal server error No screens found // Carl.
Hello, this is for gparted-lve-0.5.2.9: I tried three different monitors where the live CD produced a black screen due to "out-of-range" video signals (through an analog VGA connector). Interestingly this does not happen when the X server starts up, but before when some text menu asks for further configuration options. I don't know the specific reasons, but maybe all those monitors (most part of a KVM switch these days) are not plug-and-play (lack of DDC (display data channel)). Anyway users would benefir form a more conservative video timing. For reference, the problem occurred on a HP/Compaq DL380 G5 server where the graphics card is reported as an "ATI ES1000".
Carl, So 0.6.1-2 does not detect your graphic card... Could you please put "radeon.modeset=0" in the boot parameter? Or maybe give testing GParted live 0.6.1-4 a try? Please let us know the results. Thanks. Ulrich, Could you test gparted live 0.6.1-2 or 0.6.1-4? Also please test that with "radeon.modeset=0" in the boot parameter. Thanks. Steven.
Hi, I had the same problem of "no screen detected" with an ATI radeon HD4870, and the "radeon.modeset=0" workaround worked for me, even if some things were a bit slow, like moving windows. But it allowed me to modify my partitions successfully, so thank you :)
Hi, I tried the live 0.6.1-4 as suggested and it stops at the same point as 1-2, not altogether sure where i would put the "radeon.modset=0" suggestion, i'm not that familiar with linux! Not sure if this is significant either but the lines above the "no screens found" read // (EE) VESA: kernal modesetting driver in use, refusing to load (EE) no devices detected // needless to say all the boot options are default when trying this. Carl.
@Carl: you can press [tab] when selecting "launch gparted live" or something similar on the gparted live boot menu and just add this ( radeon.modeset=0 ) at the end of the line, and start the system (I am not sure but I think you have to press ctrl+x to use the line you modified)
Recently Steven and I worked together to try to get GParted Live to boot and work properly on a wide variety of video cards. Would you be able to try GParted Live 0.7.0-4?
Ok I'll give it a go & report back
Hi, Sorry for the delay. Short answer - You've fixed it :) I didn't experiment with any of the actual functionality of GParted as i worked around that one in the end. But i can confirm it boots just fine all the way to the gui now and on the same h/w platform ie. a pair of 4850's Hope that helps, Cheers Carl.
Thank you Carl for the confirmation that GParted Live now works on your hardware. I will leave this bug report open for a couple of weeks for others to respond. If no problems are reported then I will close this bug report.