Frequency out of range issue again
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I recently recovered an aunt's computer that got an M$ trojan and talked to her about Free Software and she agreed to have a dual-boot with Triquel. The problem is that after doing the Trisquel install, upon reboot the monitor just says "frequency out of range" and the system hangs that way.
I think I need to change the grub resolution, but am not sure how I would do that as I can't get into the system at all.
Any idea how I could fix things with the Trisquel Live CD?
Thanks alot.
Had the same problem before when dual booting with another distro.
Reinstall Trisquel again. Here's what I did. Although now I'm using Grub Customizer
There's not a way to fix it as it is? Another OS and Trisquel are both on the hard drive, I just cannot see grub at startup.
Will I have to re-install the other OS too?
Unfortunately, what this is looking like to the other party is that "Linux" ruins systems. Hopefully I can resolve this, but I don't know how to access anything on the computer with no OS. When I reinstall Trisquel, should it be over the partition it already resized the first time?
Until very recently I had that "frequency out of range" problem with my desktop, and it seemed that there was no way for me to run Linux on it, but now something changed:
I downloaded antiX-M11 from http://antix.mepis.org/index.php?title=Main_Page#Downloads and used UNetbootin to make an liveUSB with antiX; then, when i booted that liveUSB in my desktop, i scrolled down to the option "antiX-icewm-desktop-legacy-nvidia" and pressed enter and i was able to run that distro in live mode!
After that i even tried a liveCD of gNewSense and it worked (it didn't before i used antiX-M11)! It seems that when antiX-M11 is booted with mode "antiX-icewm-desktop-legacy-nvidia" it changes the monitors default resolution that used to cause the error, and i just couldn't change that myself in the grub options (didn't have any effect).
I don't know if it will work for you, but if you can download antiX-M11 and try it first to see what happens before you reinstall everything, that would be worth a shot, i think!
If you can run antiX-M11 with the "antiX-icewm-desktop-legacy-nvidia" option, try setting yourself the monitor resolution after antiX-M11 fully boots and the graphical interface appears, and then shutdown and try a liveCD or liveUSB of the particular distro you want.
I burned a CD of the AntiX thing and when it boots, i see a gfxboot: prompt
Would I type in the options you mentioned?
antiX-icewm-desktop-legacy-nvidia
I don't think the target pc can boot from usb.
Well the odd thing is that Live CD's always work on this desktop. It's just that after I installed it to disk the monitor says "frequency out of range" after the BIOS screen. I will definitely look at that antiX thing though
On 20/12/11 00:03, name at domain wrote:
> Well the odd thing is that Live CD's always work on this desktop. It's
> just that after I installed it to disk the monitor says "frequency out
> of range" after the BIOS screen. I will definitely look at that antiX
> thing though
Possibly the updated packages ruined the video. Perhaps starting with
the old kernel or not updating the video drivers might be a good test.
I was trying to change the grub file on the hard drive from within the LiveCD of Trisquel 5.0 and did change the file, but I suspect that update-grub did not work. Is there a way for me to use the LiveCD to update the grub on the HDD? If all else fails, I'll make that anti-x cd.
Wednesday night is when I go back to fix it, wish me luck!
You must indeed 'chroot' in the root file system (that you need to previously mount) before dealing with with GRUB. This documentation is quite well done: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2#ChRoot
Notice that it suggests a 'grub-install --recheck' to reinstall GRUB. I believe that, in your case, you instead need to edit /etc/default/grub ('sudo nano /etc/default/grub') to change some resolutions and then run 'sudo update-grub'.
yes, that's what I did, but I don't think the command that I ran from the LiveCD affected the grub file on the hard drive.
If you were never returned any error message, GRUB should have been updated (but maybe the resolution you set is not supported either). To be sure, you could uncomment the line "GRUB_INIT_TUNE="480 440 1". It will play a note at GRUB's startup.
I want everyone to know that I used the chroot (the antix disc did not work at all) and it worked great! My aunt has taken quickly to Gnu-Linux and likes the fact that there are no Flash ads on Youtube and the fact that LibreOffice will not correct her Spanish as incorrect with red underlining.
I'm glad that with your help, I could get a time-wearied window$ user to take a chance on Free software.
Thanks to everyone!
El 23/12/11 21:41, name at domain escribió:
> I want everyone to know that I used the chroot (the antix disc did not
> work at all) and it worked great! My aunt has taken quickly to
> Gnu-Linux and likes the fact that there are no Flash ads on Youtube
> and the fact that LibreOffice will not correct her Spanish as
> incorrect with red underlining.
>
sudo aptitide install libreoffice-help-es libreoffice-l10n-es
If she does not like automatic spellchecking then she can disable it
with F7.
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