| 1 |
On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 10:22 AM Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> On Wed, 12 May 2021 08:56:16 -0400, John Blinka wrote: |
| 4 |
> |
| 5 |
> > |
| 6 |
> > I’ve tried usb sticks with both Sysrescue and Ubuntu server to boot this |
| 7 |
> > thing. It appears to attempt to boot each one, but then the screen goes |
| 8 |
> > blank after 1-2 seconds, at which point I can’t tell what’s going on. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> This could possibly be KMS kicking in, try adding nomodeset to the boot |
| 11 |
> options. While you're editing the boot options, you may as well remove |
| 12 |
> any quiet or splash options too, so you can better see what is going on. |
| 13 |
|
| 14 |
|
| 15 |
KMS… had to Google that. Not that I am fluent in this stuff |
| 16 |
(understatement!) but how does one add nomodeset to boot options, or edit |
| 17 |
boot options? The world I’m living in consists of downloading a bootable |
| 18 |
Linux iso image, dd’ing it to a usb stick, then trying to boot my |
| 19 |
recalcitrant Asus board from that. What you’re suggesting sounds to me |
| 20 |
like rolling my own Gentoo usb boot stick. Is |
| 21 |
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Install_Gentoo_on_a_bootable_USB_stick is the |
| 22 |
place to go for that? |
| 23 |
|
| 24 |
John |
Archives