Solved: Bootup

[benmc]

the only thing I can think of is that the Mageia grub video driver is not compatible with your video card.
(and I do not know how to change it)

I am only going on, that, from ages ago, my original unichrome card would sometime not display random text, letters / button labels...etc, and changing the card was the only way I could fix it and during the testing phase of Mga7, it was also discovered that the installer was "picky" about the intel 810 and later driver - missing buttons / text / graphics so a change was made to the installer graphics to overcome this.

so video card is?

[Crewdawg]

@benmc
You're going to love this. The original is a nVidia GeForce 7300LE.
I've always been using the open source driver. Thought that Mageia picked that automatically. Hmmm. Think I'll go check and see what graphics driver it's trying to use and if nVidia then get rid of that and go with the open source instead. Will see if that picks up anything then or not.

Tom

[benmc]

the (open source) video driver that you are using is used by the kernel after it is initialized by grub.

the driver I mean is the grub boot video driver.

you might want to have a look here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238932 but no solution

[Crewdawg]

the (open source) video driver that you are using is used by the kernel after it is initialized by grub.

the driver I mean is the grub boot video driver.

you might want to have a look here: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2238932 but no solution

What's the commands for searching on this here in Mageia?

[Crewdawg]

Here are some screenshots of what's showing in the setup for bootloader. Don't know if will help much or not.

[doktor5000]

In your last screenshot, where it shows grub2 with graphical menu, try switching to text mode to see whether it's only a problem with the graphical display that your Debian entries don't show up. That was the hint our grub maintainer mentioned ...

[Crewdawg]

Will do. Think that might bring in the Mageia as well?

[Crewdawg]

In your last screenshot, where it shows grub2 with graphical menu, try switching to text mode to see whether it's only a problem with the graphical display that your Debian entries don't show up. That was the hint our grub maintainer mentioned ...

Tried doing that in the MCC, ah guess what doesn't take. I had gone back in to take a look at it just to be on the safe side after having finished. When I did it was back at the graphical setting again. Very odd. Wonder why it don't take using MCC. What's the cli command for doing this and I'll give it a shot. Then I'll reboot and see if it shows up when it boots up again.

At moment I still have the Debian set as default. But when I go down the boot screen to select booting to Mageia I should still see a boot screen when getting here if all works right or should I make Mageia default and try it that way instead? I know that it's probably better when I do make Mageia as default to just go to Cli and do a grub-install /dev/sda. I was looking at the boot settings in the MCC and saw so many Mageia ones there that I wouldn't know which to grab but do know that being in root Cli that it's much easier to just do the grub-install command that way.

Thanks

Tom

[doktor5000]

To do this manually you would need to change the GRUB_GFXMODE setting in /etc/default/grub to GRUB_GFXMODE=text and then run update-grub2 again.

[Crewdawg]

To do this manually you would need to change the GRUB_GFXMODE setting in /etc/default/grub to GRUB_GFXMODE=text and then run update-grub2 again.

I logged out of user and logged back in as root and also then went and changed that. Back out of root and logged back in as user again. Did the update-grub2 in terminal.

Code: Select all

Generating grub configuration file ...
Found theme: /boot/grub2/themes/maggy/theme.txt
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.2.7-desktop-1.mga7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-5.2.7-desktop-1.mga7.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.1.20-desktop-2.mga7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-5.1.20-desktop-2.mga7.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.1.18-desktop-1.mga7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-5.1.18-desktop-1.mga7.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-5.1.14-desktop-1.mga7
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-5.1.14-desktop-1.mga7.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-desktop
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd-desktop.img
Aug 21 17:33:39 | DM multipath kernel driver not loaded
  /dev/sdb: open failed: No medium found
  /dev/sdc: open failed: No medium found
  /dev/sdd: open failed: No medium found
  /dev/sde: open failed: No medium found
Found Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid on /dev/sda5
done
[root@localhost ~]#




Going to reset Mageia as default and see what happens. Hope it does good. If not will keep looking. Has to be something in one of the configs for grub some place that needs to be tweaked a bit somehow.

[Crewdawg]

@ doktor5000
Well, I went and did the grub2-install /dev/sda after having done the previous. Decided to do a complete shut-down and then start the pc up again instead of a reboot. Ahh, guess what happened?

You are the hero doktor5000!!!! Sucker works. See the attachment on this one. I actually did a shut-down again and then turned back on just to make sure I was seeing things right. And it was. Thank you kind sir for putting up with me on my quest for getting this solved. I sure didn't want to do a fresh install. As I mentioned before, I can get kinda bullheaded in trying to find a fix for something instead of doing that old standard fall back that I've seen mentioned in other distros forums of doing the old standard remove and reinstall bit. This way I learn things when finding a fix instead or having someone teach me a fix.

Again, thanks to Everyone for the help. Has been an big hit and miss until the right one came along.

[doktor5000]

You're welcome. And after all that hint came from our grub maintainer, not from me

Please mark the thread as solved by editing the subject of the first post and prefixing it with [SOLVED], thanks in advance.

[doktor5000]

Said and done boss.
Do favor. Tell grub maintainer thanks for me that the hint works like a champ.