Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Undefined Video Mode Number

If you happen to have "Undefined Video Mode Number" error message when you login into your Ubuntu, here is the solution!
1. Open your menu.lst file
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
2. Change statement that says vga=xxx (xxx is some numbers) with vga=normal
3. Reboot and tha dha.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

I love you!! That was making me so crazy I was about to reinstall Ubuntu.

gusanto at gmail dot com said...

I'm happy if my blog benefits others.
Congratulation.

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Unknown said...

Thanx, mate! Found some hints about that failure at several panels but they weren't neither fixing the problem nor so simpel. :-)

Craggy said...

Thanks for this. After a system update, Grub was not finding the boot partition. I managed to fix that in grub.lst, but had no idea why I got the VGA error until I found your post.

wodzu777 said...

I think that better solution is to compile kernel with e.g. VESA framebuffer support ;) Innit? :)