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Would disabling the text splash screen (remove splasht boot parameter) have made a difference?


Thank you, very good reminder. Unfortunately, it did not. I should have noted in my post that I had tried many a rather goodly vast number of combinations of boot parameters with and without ...

PART 2: Live-USB // Blank, Black Screen Possible with LG Gram Laptops

Continued from post #1 above.

Screenshots below of:

+ The encryption password entry page that is obscured by the blank screen in Scenario A above, + {See Post #1 of this thread.}
++ The grub-launched Text Menu Option ...

Tl;dr – disable Secure Boot and enable CSM Support with LG Gram laptops to boot MX Live-USB.

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Bit of neighborly giveback. This is pretty basic info but hope it helps somebody with LG Gram or similar laptop in troubleshooting a persistent blank, black screen around Live-USB booting of ...

. . . simplest "solution" . . .

Not surprisingly, the workaround was simple to implement as well as effective.

Thank you, fehlix and JayM. You guys are great.

Thanks also to this community and anyone who read and thought about my thread here. I thank you for welcoming my problems; the water's ...

^fehlix, great thanks for this recommendation. As I have to skip right now, kindly allow me to attempt it later today. I shall do so.

A follow-on question though, and please kindly indulge my bluntness . . . :

Ok, simplest "solution" for not going through the text-menus.

What does this mean ...

MXer321 wrote: Mon Jul 26, 2021 10:12 pm . . . sadly for me, . . . no cigar.

Bump for the forum's consideration.

With appreciation and kindest regards.

I am thankful for this community.

Do try this:
Edit the menu-entry "Customized.. (text menus)" and do remove "splasht" ( Press "e" to edit and remove splasht, pres F10 to boot.)

Thank you for the consideration and recommending this. I followed it, and sadly for me, it only terminates in a blank ...

Thank you. Please forgive my delaying as I was unsure about my own understanding of the terminology, "interactive text-menus," "text-splash screen," "splasht=fa," and "splasht= ," etc., etc. I went down a rabbit hole of my own making in looking at this, and now I think I have accurate understandings ...

Other attempted mitigations that have failed for my circumstances:

Whenever booting customizable:

1. No edits to kernel screen. Keep: quiet splasht nosplash menu

2. Only 'menu'. Delete: quiet splasht nosplash

3. Keep nosplash and menu. Delete: quiet and splasht

4. Add 'nomodeset' and keep 'menu ...

Perhaps this is why:
Drives: Local Storage: total: 506.75 GiB used: 2.02 GiB (0.4%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Samsung model: MZVLB512HAJQ-00000 size: 476.94 GiB
block size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 serial: <filter>
rev: EXA7301Q scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sda ...