I have Linux mint installed on a usb drive and it will boot and display a menu with boot options. When I select Linux mint, the computer screen goes blank and my monitor looses connection like it didn't boot at all.
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It will help to list your hardware, particularly motherboard and graphics card. Are you using UEFI or Legacy BIOS?– AshMar 25, 2016 at 21:17
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My motherboard is a Sabertooth 990fx r2.0 with an amd fx 8350– TaconiumMar 25, 2016 at 21:20
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What is the maximum resolution supported by your monitor? Do the HDD activity LED still blinks after the screen goes blank? If you press the CAPS LOCK key does the LED go on and off?– BogdanMar 25, 2016 at 21:22
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My monitor is 1080p and I'm running Linux off a usb drive. I can boot back into windows by force shutting down my Pc and removing the usb drive. There is no lights on the usb drive that are on and the harddrive led is off. The keyboard lights work fine.– TaconiumMar 25, 2016 at 21:25
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Have a look at this help guide for black screen in Mint, see if the suggestions help: community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/842. The nomodeset stuff is likely to fix it, sounds like it could be a GPU issue.– AshMar 25, 2016 at 21:42
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I think your Linux tries to load the amd (i assume you have also an amd gpu) framebuffer, which is not able to run with several current kernels.
try to edit the bootline (hit e
on your boot menu entry) and add
vga=normal nofb nomodeset
to it. one of it should disable the amd framebuffer and run without it.
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nomodeset
will still do, andnouveau
does no better thanradeon
, especially if your distro is not with recent (or, so called edgy) versions kernel.modprobe.blacklist=nouveau
instead if you want to be specific. not surevga=normal nofb
make any point though.– Tom YanMar 26, 2016 at 10:11
It is not booting because of the usb drive. I tried another and it worked fine. It might be because it is usb 3 or has an improper file system