Struggling with UEFI boot on ASUS laptop

[MikeLockmoore]

I gave it a try, Juanito, but my laptop locks up on a black screen that even Ctrl+Alt+Delete won't restart.   

[coreplayer2]

I cant believe ASUS notebooks do not have a legacy boot mode, at least would be an interim measure to boot the machine.



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[coreplayer2]

Besides, sounds like the notebook is booted with no video, not locked up



Trying to remember how I overcome same problem..
Ok I think I installed Xfbdev  and set the appropriate fb boot code

[Juanito]

Do you have the graphics-KERNEL module loaded on boot?

[MikeLockmoore]

Juanito: no, I have just  tc-5.x rootfs + modules64 on my initrd statement in my Grub config, and the extension list I posted earlier with the additioni of the Xlibs.tcz.  Which type of item is graphics-KERNEL?

coreplayer2: My ASUS might have such a mode... but I didn't see an obvious setting for that yet.  When I have a chance, I will look again.

[Juanito]

By graphics-KERNEL, I mean (for example) graphics-3.8.10-tinycore64.tcz, which would be loaded in your case by entering "tce-load -i graphics-KERNEL"

If you don't have this loaded onboot and you don't load one of the uefi graphics modules using grub.cfg, you won't see anything after "booting in blind mode" has finished (but startx will still work).