Revision of Installation Troubleshooting from Tue, 08/13/2013 - 18:11

Troubleshooting: Can't boot into the desktop?

If you are unable reach the desktop after selecting Try Trisquel without any change to your computer at the installation options screen, even after waiting a long time, you may need to change the boot parameters.

Press the F4 key for Other Options. By selecting this option, a line of "boot text" will appear across the bottom of the screen, with a cursor at the end of the line. quiet splash-- can be seen at the end of the line.

Use the backspace key to delete quiet splash-- and replace quiet splash-- with one of these other commands:

• noapic nolapic
• acpi=off
• irqpoll
• lapic pci=routeirq

One of these combinations is likely to work on a computer that will not boot to a desktop for installation purposes.

If the boot parameter options worked for you, you will need to make changes to a text file /boot/grub/menu.lst after the installation has completed.

Post-Installation

After the reboot, there are one or two more steps before you see the desktop:

1. If another operating system was already installed on your system, you will see a GRUB bootloader menu. Select Trisquel's entry from the list. GRUB can be configured extensively later. Comprehensive documentation for GRUB is available here.
2. When the login prompt appears after the bootup splash screen is gone, log in with your username and password.

Blank Screen?

If you are installing a console version of Trisquel (i.e. Server) if you see a blank screen after you reboot your computer press alt+F2 and you should see a login window appear.

Terminal Login

If you start your computer and are taken to a terminal prompt instead of the normal log in environment. Log in with your normal username and password and then enter the command

startx

and you should see your desktop appear.