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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.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Its probably just wrong video mode set as message says... But either way who cares about grub resolution

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's all fun and games until you have to repair your system with 1x1 resolution

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then just throw your screen and GPU out, for what other reason would we have beepers on mainboards?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I never seen that on a PC even in CGA monitor times

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let me guess, you have an Nvidia card?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Red Dead Pixel Redemption.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I had this error several times (also cases where it would not boot afterwards). It usually appears after installing Nvidia drivers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

X11 doesnt start until after the kernel is loaded.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you install Ubuntu alongside Windows, or do a fresh install after wiping?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its fresh install, no dual boot

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

What are your PC specs? Make sure CSM and Secure Boot are disabled in the BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

According to DDG it's a Grub issue. There are a couple of things you could try by searching that error message.

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