Hi Lev, On 23 June 2014 20:23, Lev Lafayette <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi LUVers, > > Recently purchased a Toshiba Satellite C50PSCJEA-01N011 Celeron-N2820 4G > 500GB 15.6" Windows8.1 Notebook PSCJEA-01N011 > > Sad reality is because a certain piece of medical equipment requires 'doze > (no it doesn't work with Wine etc) said machine had to be bought with said > OS. > > Obviously don't want to do much in the MS-Windows world and have sought to > navigate my way around the madness that is MS-Windows 8; have resized the > disk, turned off secure boot (necessary for installation apparently), > began installation with a nice Debian Mint 201403 disk, grub comes up > and... > > I get a black screen. The DVD drive happily whirls around obviously > wanting to entertain the possibility of another Linux install, but alas > with no screen display not much else can be done. > > I have attempted a standard GRUB modification used on other Toshiba > systems (https://coderwall.com/p/ydbldg) but to no avail. > > Any ideas? There's always the good old "noapic" and/or "nolapic" options that has helped me regularly install Ubuntu on newer devices before the kernel fully supports it (e.g. my Macbook Air) Sean
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