Error No Video Mode Activated Ubuntu 13.04
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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 http://askubuntu.com/questions/43196/grub2-failed-with-no-video-mode-activated 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 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/699802 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 cdro
whatever. I installed on an encrypted partition via the alternate x64 image from a usb stick. When I boot, the following text line displays on http://www.linuxhospital.com/read/ubuntu-error-no-video-mode-activated.html 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 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 partition thankyou!) I'd rather get rid of it. I've found error no 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 video mode activated". Everything seems to work though, what's this error message about? Nvidia fix error no video 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_GFXMODE= commented out, so I uncommented it and added the correct video sp error: no video mode activated location: ubuntuforums.com - date: February 18, 2015 Post http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1903325 being closed, I a