Error No Video Mode Activated 11.10
to Milestone grub2 (Ubuntu) Edit Confirmed Medium Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: grub2 (Ubuntu) Filed here by: Marcin Juszkiewicz When: 2011-01-07 Confirmed: 2011-02-21 Target Distribution Baltix BOSS Juju Charms Collection Elbuntu Guadalinex Guadalinex Edu Kiwi Linux nUbuntu PLD Linux Tilix tuXlab Ubuntu Ubuntu Linaro Evaluation Build Ubuntu RTM Package (Find…) Project (Find…) Status Importance Confirmed Medium Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Precise Confirmed Undecided Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: grub2 (Ubuntu Precise) Filed here by: Dimitri John Ledkov When: 2012-08-13 Confirmed: 2012-08-13 Package (Find…) Status Importance Confirmed Undecided Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Quantal Won't Fix Medium Unassigned Edit You need to log in to change this bug's status. Affecting: grub2 (Ubuntu Quantal) Filed here by: Dimitri John Ledkov When: 2012-08-13 Completed: 2014-12-03 Package (Find…) Status Importance Won't Fix Medium Assigned to Nobody Me Comment on this change (optional) Email me about changes to this bug report Also affects project (?) Also affects distribution/package Nominate for series Bug Description Binary package hint: grub-pc On my laptop I am getting "error: no video mode activated." message from grub on system boot (in standard VGA mode). After that kernel loads and sets proper resolution (1366x768). --- Architecture: amd64 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: grub-pc 1.99~20110104-2ubuntu1 PackageArchitecture: amd64 ProcEnviron: SHELL=/bin/bash LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.37-12.26-generic 2.6.37 Tags: natty Uname: Linux 2.6.37-12-generic x86_64 UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare See original description Tags: precise apport-collected natty oneiric rls-q-notfixing Edit Tag help Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw) wrote on 2011-01-07: Dependencies.txt #1 Dependencies.txt Edit (2.0 KiB, text/plain) apport information tags: added: apport-collected natty description: updated Marcin Juszkiewicz (hrw) wrote on 2011-01-07: #2 My /etc/default/grub: GRUB_DEFAULT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true GRUB_TIMEOUT=2 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="loop.max_loop=256 acpi_backlight=vendor loglevel=0" GRUB_TERMINAL=console GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true GR
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whatever. I installed on an encrypted partition via the alternate x64 image from a usb stick. When I boot, the http://www.linuxhospital.com/read/ubuntu-error-no-video-mode-activated.html following text line displays on an otherwise empty screen: error: no video mode activated I assume this is from grub? The machine displays this for a few seconds then boots https://forum.ubuntu-fr.org/viewtopic.php?id=669831 normally, so I must admit this is purely a cosmetic issue. However as I will be starting my machine in front of clients (no suspend or hibernate on an encrypted error no partition thankyou!) I'd rather get rid of it. I've found similar issues on other posts/forums but no solutions. Any ideas? at boot, "error: no video mode activated" location: ubuntuforums.com - date: April 27, 2013 I have set no quiet boot and no splash, and the the first thing I see after bios post messages when booting up is "error: no error no video video mode activated". Everything seems to work though, what's this error message about? Nvidia fix for Not optimum mode & error no video mode activated location: ubuntuforums.com - date: October 17, 2012 Hi, Here's a list of what I tired so you know what I did: Installed the driver from the hardware additional drivers, update manager added another driver this hosed the video completely. I formated, re-installed and tried Code: sudo sed -i -e 's/#GRUB_TERMINAL/GRUB_TERMINAL/g' /etc/default/grub for text mode which gave me a clue on what the problem was. Read and tried the fixes on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...b2/+bug/699802 Tried in grub NOMODESET. Lastly I tried Commented #Grub_Hidden_Timeout After all that, I finally got it! I've been beating this thing to death, with searching and experimenting. But here's the answer. If you have a Nvidia video card (mine is a Nvidia GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a). I kept getting Not optimum mode : Recommended mode 1280X1024 /60. When I commented out grub so I could see the boot sequence I founderror: no video mode activated. So when in grub I noticed GRUB