diy2124
December 11th, 2018, 12:02 AM
I'm about 2 weeks into experiencing Ubuntu...and I've learned more than I thought I ever would so far.
I have an old Compaq mini-110 that I'm trying to install Ubuntu version 18.04/18.10 onto. So far I have successfully installed 17.04 (32-bit i386) from an .iso file from the website. This Release works perfectly fine on the mini, however, I would like to update to the latest release in order to download apps and have updates to security etc.. After watching youtube videos, I learned that in order to get the latest release, I would have to download the mini.iso from the netboot installer page. As soon as I choose the option to install I see undefined video mode:314. It lets you pick different resolutions (0-6) but I'm not sure if it's working due to the the next error that I will refer to soon (When installing from the iso, this message never appeared). I've also seen that you can change vga= something but I have no idea how to get to that. It lets me continue with the install. I follow the instructions throughout the install. It says it has installed successfully. I reboot and Instead of going to the GUI, I'm in tty1(?). I sign in and only get a command prompt. I've tried to do the ctrl+alt+F1-F12 but none of them got me out of this. I also saw on a forum that you could Check where display-manager.service is pointing to and if it was pointing to an old lightdm version to switch it to the gdm version. I went to "ls -la /etc/systemd/system" and saw nothing that referred to a display-manager.service. So my questions are: Is the undefined video mode the reason why the I'm going to tty1 or are these separate errors? If they are separate instances: How do I get to change the vga so the undefiended video mode error goes away? Am I missing something in the install that is causing me to go straight to the tty1 instead of going to the GUI. Thanks in advance for your help.
I have an old Compaq mini-110 that I'm trying to install Ubuntu version 18.04/18.10 onto. So far I have successfully installed 17.04 (32-bit i386) from an .iso file from the website. This Release works perfectly fine on the mini, however, I would like to update to the latest release in order to download apps and have updates to security etc.. After watching youtube videos, I learned that in order to get the latest release, I would have to download the mini.iso from the netboot installer page. As soon as I choose the option to install I see undefined video mode:314. It lets you pick different resolutions (0-6) but I'm not sure if it's working due to the the next error that I will refer to soon (When installing from the iso, this message never appeared). I've also seen that you can change vga= something but I have no idea how to get to that. It lets me continue with the install. I follow the instructions throughout the install. It says it has installed successfully. I reboot and Instead of going to the GUI, I'm in tty1(?). I sign in and only get a command prompt. I've tried to do the ctrl+alt+F1-F12 but none of them got me out of this. I also saw on a forum that you could Check where display-manager.service is pointing to and if it was pointing to an old lightdm version to switch it to the gdm version. I went to "ls -la /etc/systemd/system" and saw nothing that referred to a display-manager.service. So my questions are: Is the undefined video mode the reason why the I'm going to tty1 or are these separate errors? If they are separate instances: How do I get to change the vga so the undefiended video mode error goes away? Am I missing something in the install that is causing me to go straight to the tty1 instead of going to the GUI. Thanks in advance for your help.