Comment 19 for bug 404421

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I was finally able to finish startup.

In the GRUB 2 menu, I pressed the <e> key to edit, used the arrow keys
to move the cursor to the line that ended with "quiet splash" and
changed it to end with "i915.modeset=0 quiet splash" then pressed the
<Ctrl> + <x> key combination to boot.

To make the changes persistent, I modified /etc/default/grub

by changing the line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

to:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="i915.modeset=0 quiet splash"

then saved and ran the command "sudo update-grub" to implement the changes.

Thanks again,

Chris

Loïc Minier wrote:
> In the GRUB menu ('e' to edit the entry on boot), add the flag I mention
> to the linux kernel cmdline, that is where you see "splash quiet".
>
> On your system, edit /boo/grub/menu.lst and read the instructions. If
> you're using GRUB 2 (unlikely), see /etc/default/grub instead.
>
>