[SOLVED] Booting in blind mode in laptop with elilo and uefi. Its a three boot computer

pedro.herrero · 01-19-2019, 01:14 PM

I have a laptop with linux in origin.

After dual booting, averything worked and now I had two working OSes.

Tried to install Slackware and succeeded, but it gives the following error:

"no suitable video mode found
Booting in blind mode"

Any hints? Anybody has had the same problem?

colorpurple21859 · 01-19-2019, 02:01 PM

What bootloader are you using for Slackware? The short answer is add nomodeset as a kernel option to the linux boot menu line.

pedro.herrero · 01-19-2019, 03:36 PM

Hi colourpurple21859,

I have grub2 as boot loader.

It seems that editing /etc/default/grub and enabling graphical terminal, which was disabled by default in debian, my main OS,

and/or

setting GRUB_GFXMODE to a lesser resolution in slackware's /etc/default/grub

did the trick

colorpurple21859 · 01-19-2019, 03:50 PM

That is good that you figured it out