error: no server is specified. error: no suitable video mode found. /dev/sdc2: clean, 259918/15630336 files.
After this error screen for few seconds it automatically boots into Ubuntu.
Need Help :)
Nothing to worry about especially if it boots fine and loads your graphical environment. It’s just a grub warning message because grub doesnt play well with (presumably) nvidia. You could probably make some tweaks to remove the error but there’s really no reason to bother.
As it boots fine (and changing into wayland later) I think you can just ignore it.
Edit: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/2012181
So, its a bug?
It’s not exactly a bug. It’s just that Linux is extremely verbose and often spits out debug messages for things that are not relevant to your system.
No, it is a bug (I think) because GRUB should display in native resolution and because of a bug can’t figure it out and displays in 800x600. It is however only cosmetic.
Its probably just wrong video mode set as message says… But either way who cares about grub resolution
It’s all fun and games until you have to repair your system with 1x1 resolution
Morse code tty?
Then just throw your screen and GPU out, for what other reason would we have beepers on mainboards?
I never seen that on a PC even in CGA monitor times
Let me guess, you have an Nvidia card?
Yes.
Red Dead Pixel Redemption.
I had this error several times (also cases where it would not boot afterwards). It usually appears after installing Nvidia drivers.
The first two lines seem like they probably came from X, the old standard UI system for *nix. The last line is just saying that your 2nd partition on your 3rd disk was checked with no errors found. This is fine.
Given that the UI then starts up you can ignore these messages. They’re there in case the system fails to start up after that point.
X11 doesnt start until after the kernel is loaded.
Yes, that’s right.
GRUB (or any other bootloader) doesn’t care about and in fact doesn’t even know about X, Wayland, or any other userland GUI system.
Okay? These aren’t from the bootloader tho.
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Linux is the old standard kernel for GNU
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Because Hurd was disastrously conceived from the very beginning, it can never be more than an unnecessarily inefficient curiosity.
Did you install Ubuntu alongside Windows, or do a fresh install after wiping?
Its fresh install, no dual boot
What are your PC specs? Make sure CSM and Secure Boot are disabled in the BIOS.
According to DDG it’s a Grub issue. There are a couple of things you could try by searching that error message.
Use Linux Mint instead. You’ll thank me.
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Avoid *buntu.
What did I miss? Ubuntu used to be the shit.
Ubuntu has gotten worse that it seams to was a few years ago. I didn’t use it outside of servers. Many don’t like the direction that ubuntu goes with snaps. But use whatever distro you want
Welcome to the land of freedom
Oh right I forgot all about snaps. Yeah I haven’t used it as a dedicated desktop since probably 2006. It’s generally all server usage in the cloud for me these days, which basically means everything is disposable and I couldn’t care less about the full OS in general. I really do need to get back on Linux for personal use though. I don’t really care for running VMs on windows for my self hosted stuff.
Why would anyone use Ubuntu on a server? Ubuntu is basically Debian unstable + non-free drivers that they tried to get sorta stable in 6 months. That may be ok on a desktop where you can accept some bugs in exchange for newer versions of the software. But why would you not run Debian stable on a server instead?
Maybe 10 years ago when Debian stable got really out-of-date, but that hasn’t been true in a looong time. Debian releases much more frequently, much stabler, it has all the goid stuff from Ubuntu backported but none if the bad stuff.
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Plenty of people use Ubuntu LTS on servers
That doesn’t mean it’s a smart thing to do…
Are there any advantages over Debian stable?
Since I reinstall Windows (trying different versions just because) as often as I distro hop I just started using different distros in WSL. Let’s me distro hop in both OSes as I want and at the same time without any kind of dual booting problems.
It’s always seemed to me that Ubuntu has a pattern of going “Ick, NIH! Let’s replace it!” about some important system component, then giving up on their reimplementation a few years later and moving back to an equivalent mainstream component. Upstart, Unity (third parties have taken over, but Canonical no longer develops it), Mir as an independent display server . . . There are probably more that I’m missing, since it isn’t my distro. But snaps seem to me to be in the first half of that pattern. Probably they’ll give up on the system in five years or so and replace it with Flatpak.
I don’t know about anyone else, but, I went from Kubuntu to Debian/KDE because I don’t like seeing all the Snap-fake hard drives in lsblk.
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I even put mint on my mom’s pc and she very rarely has any issues. Works for almost everything out of the box.
It’s the snap-less surpremacy guys.
Apparently this was a controversial take
When I first started learning how to Linux long ago everyone recommended Ubuntu… and I had a similar issue to the OP.
I had to dump the EDID of my monitor from a Windows machine to actually get X to recognise any kind of monitor modes …it was an eye opening experience for a newbie.
Today, I still dont really like it for other reasons (I’d take Debian over Ubuntu any day). Call me crazy here guys but I think its okay to share an opinion without being called an edgelord for it.
(I use arch btw 🎩)
I’ve had a much easier time on Ubuntu with NVIDIA cards than with other distros. Also, I’m not sure how this is helpful advice to a new user at all.
