On 23/06/14 20:23, Lev Lafayette wrote:
Hi LUVers,
Recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite C50PSCJEA-01N011 Celeron-N2820 4G 500GB 15.6" Windows8.1 Notebook PSCJEA-01N011
Sad reality is because a certain piece of medical equipment requires 'doze (no it doesn't work with Wine etc) said machine had to be bought with said OS.
Obviously don't want to do much in the MS-Windows world and have sought to navigate my way around the madness that is MS-Windows 8; have resized the disk, turned off secure boot (necessary for installation apparently), began installation with a nice Debian Mint 201403 disk, grub comes up and...
I get a black screen. The DVD drive happily whirls around obviously wanting to entertain the possibility of another Linux install, but alas with no screen display not much else can be done.
Have you checked your installation medium? Does it run as a LiveDVD session OK? Try nomodeset as follows: GRUB _ CMDLINE _ LINUX _ DEFAULT="acpi _ osi=Linux acpi _ backlight=vendor quiet splash nomodeset" or just GRUB _ CMDLINE _ LINUX _ DEFAULT="nomodeset" From: http://askubuntu.com/questions/207175/what-does-nomodeset-do nomodeset The newest kernels have moved the video mode setting into the kernel. So all the programming of the hardware specific clock rates and registers on the video card happen in the kernel rather than in the X driver when the X server starts.. This makes it possible to have high resolution nice looking splash (boot) screens and flicker free transitions from boot splash to login screen. Unfortunately, on some cards this doesnt work properly and you end up with a black screen. Adding the nomodeset parameter instructs the kernel to not load video drivers and use BIOS modes instead until X is loaded. BTW, I believe that Mint is stopping support/devel on the Debian version (very disappointingly) so as much as I loved it as well, it may not be as good as it appears in the longer run. So perhaps you may prefer the LTS version Mint 17 or Debian. Daniel. )
I have attempted a standard GRUB modification used on other Toshiba systems (https://coderwall.com/p/ydbldg) but to no avail.
Any ideas?