Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

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kode-niner
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#51 Post by kode-niner »

That's good news! Glad it worked out. Now I'm curious if any other CF-18 owners running Linux have this issue.
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#52 Post by Mobus »

kode-niner wrote:That's good news! Glad it worked out. Now I'm curious if any other CF-18 owners running Linux have this issue.
Sort of curious about that myself. No matter how I searched for this, CF-18's didn't come up.

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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#53 Post by UNCNDL1 »

Mobus, glad to hear you stuck with it, and reported back.
Many times people ask questions and then just "disappear" after several people try to point them in the right direction.
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#54 Post by kode-niner »

I have found an unexpected benefit from reboot=pci. In my case on the CF-19 MK2, the Huawei EM820u WWAN card had a quirk: if I was connected to the net and did a reboot, it would never reconnect properly after the reboot. It would require a full power down to get it to work.

reboot=pci seems to have fixed that!
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Re: Mint 17 on a CF-18 Mk3 restarts to a black screen

#55 Post by mklym »

I didn't see this thread until today, so I went and checked the Linux installs I have to see if I had the same problem.
I don't run Mint 17 but figured I would check anyways.

CF-19MK4 running Mint 16 XFCE - no reboot problem

CF-29MK4 running Navigatrix 0.5 - no reboot problem

CF-29MK4 running Mint 16 XFCE - no reboot problem

CF-29MK4 running SolydX - had to use GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="reboot=pci quiet splash"

CF-29MK4 running SolydX - no reboot problem after applying fix

I don't have any CF-18s left, they are all gone to a good home. :)

Thanks you kode-miner, Jeff, Cleve and Mobus for figuring this out.
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