[SOLVED] BIOS Issues

[mindovermaster]

My Dad has Linux Mint 21 Vanessa.

His motherboard is an ASUS P8H67 Pro.

I get this problem on boot-up:
mint vmx (outside text) disable bios

I went to the BIOS, and I can only find one thing about VMX..

(picture below) (and that is enabled, but nothing happens)

When it boots up the system, it went to safe-mode. No internet, screen looks very big at 800x600.

I can’t fix anything. I tried looking at different tuts. Nothing works..

Please Help??

[sleeper12]

If it's enabled, does it make a difference if you disable it?

[mindovermaster]

I tried enabling and disabling it. No diff.

Also, I can't get to GRUB holding shift..

[sleeper12]

Best I can find is this: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1297433 ... ed-by-bios

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the VMX is causing the other problems. I'd leave it disabled until someone else responds.

As for Grub, try tapping the Esc key at boot.

[mindovermaster]

Yes, I looked at that link. Nothing helped..

Edit: I used "esc", but it just leads me to the "Grub terminal". I mean the Grub Grub. Where you can select different kernels.

[sleeper12]

You would find different kernels in Grub, Advanced Options.

[sleeper12]

It might help to post what this shows:

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[mindovermaster]

OK you hooligans…

After hours more of looking, I found the culprit. It’s not what you’d think it to be…

The new kernel that he downloaded (from update manager), Kernel 5.0.15.0.56 was broken. Somehow I got into Grub, editing /etc/default/grub, and selected an older kernel, BAM it worked just fine…

If you ever get this problem, please direct them to this…

God, this was a goose chase…

[sleeper12]

Glad you solved it, but what kernel is it now? The 5.0 kernel is quite old, so I suspect you meant an older 5.15 which is the default kernel on Mint 21.

[mindovermaster]

Glad you solved it, but what kernel is it now? The 5.0 kernel is quite old & the default kernel on Mint 21 is 5.15.

Oh, I got that wrong. Kernel was 5.15.0-56 that had that issue. It's using 0-53 now..

[sleeper12]

Ok, just wanted to be sure, that makes sense then.

[sleeper12]

Edit your first post here & add [SOLVED] to the Subject line.