Hi, I saw the post " Re: How does one do “nomodeset” in Grub2" by cw9000 what I didn’t see was any line in the editor with “linux /boot/…”. 42.1 gave me a blank screen and I’d stopped using linux till I saw the nomodeset option on Distrowatch, but I’m unable to add it. I’m not seeing what you say I should on the edit screen. There are several lines but “linux” or “boot” is not anywhere on any of them. Any help would be appreciated. I’m probably missing something simple.
Thanks,
Z 
At the grub boot screen, what do you see after you press ‘e’? Have you tried scrolling down with the ‘↓’ key? It might be further down. Maybe you could take a photo and share here for others to advise further.
Does it look like this? GRUB 2 booting with nomodeset - Album on Imgur
Try following the steps and let me know if one of the screens are not what is expected.
Hi, thanks, The screenshot is what I get. I didn’t realize I could scroll down. I tried editing the file but I guess I did something wrong because it gave an error message and booted into a low resolution desktop with I think the icewm, but at least I have something. I’ll try again tomorrow. Thanks,
Z
It’s not a permanent edit, just a way of adjusting the kernel boot parameters on the fly at boot.
The line starting linux or linuxefi is long and wraps go to the full end of that line. Hint use the end key. add nspace and nomodeset then F10 to continue boot. This is a temporary one time change to test things reboot and it goes back to normal. If you need any extra kernel parameters then use yast boot loader to make the change.
If you need nomodeset to boot then you have a video hardware problem best to tell us what you have and someone can then help
Hi, thanks for the help. After doing some research I found out that a new kernel “improvement” in the boot lunched the video for Nvidea cards. Seems kinda nuts to me that an effort to reduce flicker for the brief time a system boots is worth potentially destroying the video on Nvidea cards. Having to edit the boot config is so last century. I thought linux was long past that. I didn’t see anywhere where anyone thought it was important enough to fix either. Adding a nomodeset option to the boot menu would solve a lot of problems. Anyway I put in an old 4350 Radeon and reinstalled (I messed up editing the config file after boot and could only get a 480P screen) and everything is working fine. I’ve stopped and rebooted several times in the last few days without any problems. Thanks for everybody’s help.
Z