Dan Norton composed on 2016-12-14 20:40 (UTC-0500):
Until you know what if any grub configuration changes are required, editing is premature. Editing on the fly at boot time is how one troubleshoots grub-related troubles.
Not sure what "editing on the fly at boot time" means. Please elaborate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_fly temporary change or runtime change https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7490/16112246542_bc1875a397_z.jpg
Anyhoo, is this a grub problem or an install problem?
Don't know yet. Does anything happen that you can see after you make a selection in your Grub menu? If so, what?
The display works during boot to the point where the grub menu comes up. It's afterward that it goes black - when the GNOME screen should appear.
Can you hear anything happen after you make your Grub menu selection. Does black appear instantly once you make your selection? How long are you used to waiting between when you make the selection and when you see the greeter appear?
Gnome is rather demanding of the hardware. Maybe yours is old enough to have had some support dropped, necessitating that you use something other than GDM and/or Gnome, or suffer rather substantial performance handicap(s). As alternative to GDM there are several, such as lightdm and sddm. For DE on such old hardware as yours, I suggest you give a look at TDE[1] or AntiX[2].
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