Re: Black Screen on First Boot

[Dan Norton <dnorton@mindspring.com>]

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Thanks for the help. I've added more info...

It's impossible to accurately answer all your questions without knowing 
your gfxchip (lspci) or display model (hwinfo)...

Grub doesn't recognize any of those commands, but from hard copy:
Display adapter: NVIDIAGeForce4 8X AGP ; Display: LG W1953TV ; Pentium 4 3.0

1-Check if Plymouth is installed. If yes, purge it.

Did not find it.

2-If Plymouth is not relevant, try testing changes to Grub's boot time 
parameters by hitting the "e" key as soon as the Grub menu appears, and 
remove quiet and splash from it. If it works, change /etc/default/grub 
to match and run grub-mkconfig.

No quiet or splash in /boot/grub/grub.cfg but you give me an idea: is 
there a way to copy /etc/default/grub to a memory stick, edit it on 
another machine, then write it back? There is no mount command in the 
grub set.