Solved Linux mint 17 black screen

[popeye]

Last night I did a bunch of updates on my Linux Mint 17 VMWare Player client. Updates seemed to go well. Now when I start it goes to black screen, do see the logo first. Any way to recover or do I have to re-install?

 

[popeye]

Oh man, looking like re-install. Jimbo where are you? Help!

 

[CountMike]

Did you upgrade to 17.1 ?

 

[popeye]

Don't really know as I can't get into it. I used the tray shield to look for and apply updates, would assume it was upgrading to latest release.

 

[CountMike]

Don't really know as I can't get into it. I used the tray shield to look for and apply updates, would assume it was upgrading to latest release.

I'm asking because when I installed 17.1, it took 3 tries of rebooting until I got the desktop on the screen. My guess is it downloaded and installed GPU drivers in mean time. When I checked, proper AMD drivers were installed and that was not the case with 17.0, just some generic ones.

 

[Superfly]

Hi Popeye

There were a few grub-2 updates recently... I assume those did not install properly.

Easiest way I find is to run LiveCD, download Grub customizer:



Once installed, run this command:



(it runs grub-install...)

 

[pcgeek11]

I did the same updates yesterday and had no issues... It doesn't help but. I would also boot from a CD and reinstall GRUB as needed.

 

[popeye]

Thanks for all the replies! Just went ahead and installed 17.1 Cinnamon, at least now I know it is clean. Appreciate the help.