Please help! I’m experiencing the ‘black screen of death’ issue where I’m unable to boot into Endeavour due to an apparent issue with a grub update.
This is a clean install, and I’ve yet to be able to boot into it.
I’ve also installed all kernels (‘regular’, ‘LTS’ and ‘Zen’-- and I can’t boot into any of them. I have an Nvidia RTX3050 that is working fine from the live ISO, so it’s not an issue with Intel graphics.
I chrooted into my installation and ran pacman -Syu, ran grub-install and grub-mkconfig --output=.... as per the info at the top of the forum pages, but I still can’t get Endeavour to boot.
Yeah, my issue is different; I get to the grub menu, select a kernel, then after seeing the usual boot-related text flying by, the screen goes black. No access to TTY, either.
Do you have more than one kernel installed? If so, you can try another one.
If you don’t, with the USB installer drive and proper arch-chroot call you can make practically any modifications to your system.
By the way, did you make any special things in addition to system update just before the problem? Having plenty of information helps a lot in solving the problem.
Again, in arch-chroot you can get various logs and send them to a pastebin service so we can take a look.
[root@EndeavourOS /]# inxi -Faz | eos-sendlog
(upower:123): UPower-WARNING **: 12:15:21.353: Cannot connect to upowerd: Could not connect: No such file or directory
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 9570 100 24 100 9546 4 1848 0:00:06 0:00:05 0:00:01 2521
https://clbin.com/PWgvP
[root@EndeavourOS /]# pacman -Ss grub
endeavouros/grub-tools 1.6.9-2
Fixes, additions and enhancements to grub and os-prober.
endeavouros/grub2-theme-endeavouros 20220602-1
EndeavourOS grub2 theme
core/grub 2:2.06.r334.g340377470-1 [installed]
GNU GRand Unified Bootloader (2)
extra/breeze-grub 5.25.5-1
Breeze theme for GRUB
community/grub-btrfs 4.11-2
Include btrfs snapshots in GRUB boot options
community/grub-customizer 5.2.2-1
A graphical grub2 settings manager
community/grub-theme-vimix 20190605-2
A blur theme for grub
community/python-markdown 3.4.1-1
Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.
community/ruby-rdiscount 2.2.0.2-3
Fast Implementation of Gruber's Markdown in C
community/ruby-titlecase 0.1.1+13+1d6b4f7-5
Ruby version of John Gruber's TitleCase.pl
[root@EndeavourOS /]# pacman -Qs nvidia | eos-sendlog
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 1037 100 24 100 1013 4 197 0:00:06 0:00:05 0:00:01 238
https://clbin.com/PdvzU
I ran nvidia-installer-dkms at one point, but still had no luck booting; i’ve reinstalled Endeavour so many times, I can’t remember if the driver is currently installed or not; let me check some things
B 12driver hid-generic,usbhid
12Display 12server X.org 12v 1.21.1.4 12driver 12X 12loaded modesetting,nvidia 12gpu nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch
12resolution 3840x2160
OK, i didn’t have the driver installed after the latest install, but I do now:
I think there is a newer driver version. Do you also have ibt=off set in your default grub command line in /etc/default/grub? Then update grub with sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Then reboot and see.
The current driver version for Nvidia is 515.76 so you may need to update your mirrors and then run the update command again. Maybe it’s not on your mirrors yet?
Sooo I ended up doing yet another clean install of Endeavour using the ‘offline’ option as others have done. I was able to boot in just fine, but I’m assuming that’s because grub wasn’t updated during the install. Let’s see what happens after I update my system.
Thanks all,
Bryan
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this looks more like a partly updated system… if you say you get black screen after update and this is your installed driver…
But i bet the output is not from inside the system and instead from booting the LiveISO ?
And not chrooted into your installed system?
If you are affected by the BUG jonathan mentioned with the latest Nvidia driver modules you will nee dto downgrade drivers or fall back to nouveau to boot …
But all gone now as you reinstalled…
indeed… no issue booting if grub package and installed grub files are the same versions.
Offline will not have any issue with grub as long as you do not update grub… and latest ISO will not be affected by the month old grub issue at all…
If your grub version before updating the offline install was older than r322, then you need to either not update grub, or run grub-install (with proper options) after the update.
