> Another trouble I experienced (but this is highly system-specific) was
> wrong video mode after installation. The system in question was
> Supermicro X9SCAA with Atom N2800 CPU. During installation, installer
> picked 1366x768 video mode despite connected monitor supporting up to
> 2560x1600 - this worked, however. But after installation during boot
> monitor simply turns off. Some kind of framebuffer is active right after
> grub starts booting the kernel as I could see pictures of penguin,
> kernel finishes first stages of initialization, but some point it tries
> to load gma500_gfx driver and output breaks.. X.org wasn't installed, it
> must've tried to replace framebuffer driver with device-specific or
> something.
>
> Blacklisting gma500_gfx solved it.

I always remove the quiet and rhgb options from the kernel line in the
grub config (I don't need my servers to look pretty while booting ...
or even after booting, usually). I haven't had your specific problem,
but that might also be a solution.

                                                         - Bluejay Adametz

When people are free to do as they please the usually imitate each other.

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