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Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub

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control-alt-f7 gets you back to graphical mode. On Sun, 18 Oct 2015, ray 
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> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:17:52
> From: ray <ray@aarden.us>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub
> Resent-Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 00:36:09 +0000 (UTC)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> 
> I have stretch installed on a Toshiba and I am not able to reinstall it.
> The first instance was installed using the BIOS mode CSM.  I want to reinstall using UEFI.
>
> Now, I am using the a USB stick which Rufus was used to install stretch 64 DVD disk 1.  I changed the BIOS from CSM to UEFI.  After inserting the USB stick into the laptop, the Debian graphic page came up.  I pressed tab to open a command line to input:
> video=VGA:1860x1080
> This is to limit how small the font shows up in the following screens.
>
> I got a command line prompt:
> grub>
> I input the video command.  No errors were reported.  But I have not found out how to get out of the command line mode.
>
> After turning of the laptop and back on without the USB stick, it goes directly to the grub prompt.  I put the stick back in and power cycle it, it comes back to the grub prompt.  I repeated with rufus to see if the stick may have been changed.  The newly written stick does not change anything, it goes directly to the grub prompt.
>
> How do I move this forward?
> Run the video command
> Continue the installation process from the command line.
>
>

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Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-19 02:40 +0200
  Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub moxalt <moxalt@riseup.net> - 2015-10-19 04:20 +0200
    Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-20 04:10 +0200
      Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-20 11:00 +0200
        Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-21 01:00 +0200
          Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 11:00 +0200
  Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2015-10-19 10:50 +0200
    Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub ray <ray@aarden.us> - 2015-10-20 04:10 +0200
      Re: Reinstall Stretch - Returns to Grub Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2015-10-20 06:50 +0200

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