New M/B-CPU refuses to boot

[MR]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 3:48 AM Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey there,
>
> That black screen is a drag. This might help:
>
>
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/162075/my-computer-boots-to-a-black-screen-what-options-do-i-have-to-fix-it/162076#162076
>
> This was partly helpful.  I need to go back and go through it again.

Update:

I removed the mobo battery to reset the BIOS and got it to boot from my
flash drive (newly created system startup drive, set up on my laptop).

I was able to get it to boot using both the simple graphics menu item (in
GRUB) and by modifying the normal boot line to add "nomodeset" to the boot
line.

I put an old SSD in that I was using for Xubuntu 16.04, removed all the
partitions with gparted, then installed Xubuntu 20.04.3, with partial
success.  In fact I'm writing this on the machine from the flash drive boot.

However, when the boot from the SSD comes up, it displays the /dev/sda
drive check as clean and nothing else.  Also, when I boot from the SSD, I
don't get the grub menu, so I can't tell it to run with crippled video (a
real waste on a 32" 2k monitor that worked perfectly well with the old mobo
and it's built in graphics.

I'm not convinced the boot drive was properly formatted, although it does
boot up, it just doesn't run.

Also, during the boot up, the video card complains about something (I need
to get a photo to show what it says), so I'm not entirely sure it works
properly at all.

At this point, if I can't ensure the drive was properly laid out, I may
install Windows 10, as that seems to help greatly, and then put my Xubuntu
next to that.  It worked on my laptop, which still has Win 10 installed and
working nicely.  I can even use the mobo drivers that came with it to run
more smoothly.  That said, this is a last ditch, final resort short of
returning the whole damn combo to the store, which I may also do.  I don't
need this much grief, and while the box is not working right, I have a ton
of things that won't get done - not good.

Any ideas on why it's hanging at the prompt and how to get around that with
no grub menu?

Or why there is no grub menu at all?

For all the years I've been doing this stuff this is all new (and annoying)
to me.  I appreciate all the help I find here - thank you all so much.

Here's hoping... and happy Halloween!

Mark
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