12.2 Boot Has Scrambled Image

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Hello,

So I finally got 12.2 installed, but have this odd boot bug I think someone can probably figure out.

When I boot my system, the KDE desktop is a scrambled mess of incoherent pix-elation. If I do a Ctrl+Alt+Del then Enter, the screen resets and I get a log in screen I can read and put my password into. After I put in the password and press Enter, I get a usable desktop. Before upgrading I was running 12.1 with a secure log in and when I installed 12.2 (new install, not upgrade) I selected automatic log in. This is on the second install attempt. On the first attempt I selected a password protected log in and the system would default to a white screen with tiny colored pixels all over and would not allow any activity so I changed the boot selection to automatic.

For more information, before upgrading my core system, I installed 12.2 into VirtualBox both from an iso and from CD and both installations were flawless, thus I suspect there is some error with my previous 12.1 settings and the new 12.2 install.

Thank you for your help,

Scott

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You’ll probably never be happy until you have backed up and don’t a completely clean install to formatted partitions

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On 09/13/2012 07:26 AM, roguehorse wrote:
> If I do a Ctrl+Alt+Del then Enter

why do you use that old (1980’s) DOS command sequence ?

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Because until now, our distro has just “always” worked so there has been no reason to learn a new one.

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This is a little more drastic of an approach then I was hoping for. However, I understand exactly what you’re implying.

Thank you.

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…and you were right!

I ended up having to do a fresh install specifying the bootloader into the MBR as well as setting all partitions to be formatted. After all was done and loading went well, I immediately went to the community repositories and added Packman and nVidia then installed all required updates. I then proceeded to do a couple of reboots just to make sure and a clean sys backup to an external.

Everything works great now! : )

Thank you!

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That’s good to know, well done.