Hi Lev,

On 23 June 2014 20:23, Lev Lafayette <lev@levlafayette.com> 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.

I have attempted a standard GRUB modification used on other Toshiba
systems (https://coderwall.com/p/ydbldg) but to no avail.

Any ideas?

There's always the good old "noapic" and/or "nolapic" options that has helped me regularly install Ubuntu on newer devices before the kernel fully supports it (e.g. my Macbook Air)

SeanĀ