grub graphics poo

If you’re console goes away during boot you can revert to old school giant font simple console with this

in /etc/default/grub

add nomodeset to end of GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash nomodeset"

at boot time you can hit the Esc key and grub will pause – you can then hit “e” edit the boot settings adding nomodeset to the end of the line that starts with “linux” and then ctrl-x to continue booting