[MinnowBoard] no suitable video mode found booting in blind mode

[John Hawley]

As a general note, I happened to see the " no suitable video mode found
booting in blind mode" something just before I came home.

Several things to check, beyond what Bill is suggesting on the firmware
(and making the assumption that you are attempting to install via serial
and text mode, as you had suggested).

- Make sure that the kernel boot args includes `console=ttyS0,115200n8`
(though the n8 is optional, it's still useful to double check).

- Double check and see if there's something like `quiet` on the kernel
boot args line, if it's there I would suggest removing it as that should
get you a lot more useful information.  (on Fedora there's also
something called `rhgb`, it's possible there's something similar.  If
you see something about `plymouth` I'd recommend deleting that too.)

If you haven't tried those, that's a good place to start, if you have -
is there any way you can copy/paste the serial console output, that
might be helpful, as well as the kernel boot line.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley

On 5/21/2015 5:06 PM, Bill Traynor wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 6:38 PM, Ken Tait <ktait at venturesystemdesign.com> wrote:
>> I see you flashed this with an amd64 image..I don't think this is right...I
>> don't think an AMD image will run on this...
> 
> The AMD64 image is the image you want for a stock Minnowboard MAX as
> it comes with a 64 bit bios.  If you changed the bios to 32 bit, then
> you want the 32 bit image.
> 
> See here:  http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:MaxBios#32-bit_vs._64-bit_UEFI
> 
>>
>> Also the partition label of MAC can't be right, perhaps it thinks there is
>> no swap space..
>> Can you see a kernel layout on this or is it just the EFI bootloader?
>>
>> Also I remember some discussion on whether the efi was a 32 bit or 64 bit
>> version, had to be the same as the disti??
>> what does ver say?
>>
>> Did you try a straight up 32 bit version.
>>
>> Other than that, drive looks ok. Make sure there is a/boot/efi entry.... if
>> so, mount to this and try loading what's there...
>> there has to be a boot manager on the driver to work.
>>
>> There are a couple of other things that can cause it to fail.
>> There is a FAST BOOT option in the shell that is usually the default, this
>> needs to be disabled as it can prevent the USB from being seen.
>> Also the Windows Fast Startup needs to be disabled if this shell has it,
>> this is not the same as fast boot switch.
>>
>> Ken
>>
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