Installation Blackout

[Jebi66]

Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen,

After having searched through the web and tried several methods to solve my issue, I come to you, wise ladies and gentlemen, to see if someone has any idea of how this works.

I am trying to install Mint on my Asus Zenbook. After fiddling with the BIOS I have managed to get it to detect the USB in which I have put Mint (I used the latest universal usb installer for that). When I select the option for installing Mint, everything goes black.

Does anyone know how to solve this?

[xenopeek]

This is a common issue with graphics cards that need proprietary drivers. Probably you have an AMD or Nvidia graphics card? In that case, boot from the USB but press a key during the 10 second countdown screen. Then highlight the second option in the menu (using down arrow key) and press the Tab key to edit the boot parameters. Before the final double-dash (--) at the end of the line of text that appeared, insert:

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nomodeset acpi=off

Usually that allows you to boot.

After installation you may need to use it one more time, for the first login. Then install the needed proprietary graphics card drivers and you should be set to not need to fiddle with the boot parameters anymore.

[Jebi66]

This is a common issue with graphics cards that need proprietary drivers. Probably you have an AMD or Nvidia graphics card? In that case, boot from the USB but press a key during the 10 second countdown screen. Then highlight the second option in the menu (using down arrow key) and press the Tab key to edit the boot parameters. Before the final double-dash (--) at the end of the line of text that appeared, insert:

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nomodeset acpi=off

Usually that allows you to boot.

After installation you may need to use it one more time, for the first login. Then install the needed proprietary graphics card drivers and you should be set to not need to fiddle with the boot parameters anymore.

The Zenbooks uses Intel's HD Graphics. Gonna try it, hope it works, thanks!

[Jebi66]

Nothing, no boot, stays black.

[xenopeek]

You should not be having this issue with Intel. If the above fails, we will need to know exactly which CPU you have or exactly which Zenbook model number to figure that out.

[Jebi66]

You should not be having this issue with Intel. If the above fails, we will need to know exactly which CPU you have or exactly which Zenbook model number to figure that out.

UX31E with the i5-2557M.

[xenopeek]

Which version of Linux Mint are you trying to install? Guessing Linux Mint 13, which is based on Ubuntu 12.04. Ubuntu has extensive documentation on this model's hardware, and unless you are using an external monitor, it should work with Linux Mint 13: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook

To be clear, what exactly do you mean with "When I select the option for installing Mint, everything goes black." Are you already booted to the desktop, and clicking the Install Linux Mint icon there, or are you at the countdown from 10 screen during boot?

[Jebi66]

You guess right, it's 13.
I am trying to boot the computer from the usb directly. The "10 second one" or the most similar thing to it, as I don't have a countdown, it just starts the USB directly instead of giving me boot options, (that's ok, I got the BIOS to do that), and boots the GNU GRUB directly. I have the options of installing mint, installing it in compatibiity mode and..checking mediums, if my memory is right. Tried to add the commands before the double dash as you told me, and nothing happened, blacks out no matter what option I select.

BTW, thanks for the effort in helping me!

[breaker]

Which USB installer or creator did you use and from which system? The USB startup disk creator from Linux Mint 12 doesn't work properly to create a Linux Mint 13 bootable USB stick. You can use http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/744 this method (it wipes the drive, but makes a bootable stick. Use the imageWriter program if you prefer a GUI. Furthermore, on many BIOS, the boot runs at USB 1.1 speed and not 2.0, so you might have to wait a minute at the boot screen. How long did you give it to boot?

[Jebi66]

I waited for about 5 minutes, several times. I then got tired of it lol. I'll try what you just said, thx!