{"id":571,"date":"2010-01-25T11:52:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T11:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/?p=571"},"modified":"2010-01-25T12:23:35","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T12:23:35","slug":"blank-screen-in-grub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/25\/blank-screen-in-grub\/","title":{"rendered":"Blank screen in grub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After doing a update to the nvidia kernel for the 4GB problem, the grub screen was using a graphical interface which was not allowing me to view the options on the grub screen.  It was black \/ blank, so to alter it so that it uses a terminal (console) version instead of a graphical interface you have to alter the \/etc\/default\/grub file <\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\nvim \/etc\/default\/grub\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>And just uncomment the GRUB_TERMINAL option, or alter it to say console as below.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\n# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)\r\nGRUB_TERMINAL=console\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>You will need to update the grub \/boot\/grub\/grub.cfg file which is done via the<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"bash\">\r\nupdate-grub\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>command, you will have to be root to do this, or sudo if you do not have a root access as such.<\/p>\n<p>now the screen will be viewable in a console mode which is all that I needed anyway, I was not really that bothered about having a graphical image in the backdrop just to select a OS or kernel version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After doing a update to the nvidia kernel for the 4GB problem, the grub screen was using a graphical interface which was not allowing me to view the options on the grub screen. It was black \/ blank, so to alter it so that it uses a terminal (console) version instead of a graphical interface &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/25\/blank-screen-in-grub\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Blank screen in grub<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[67,69,68],"class_list":["post-571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-blank","tag-grub","tag-screen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codingfriends.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}