Installed on HP Pavilion dv7

[nickp]

H/w as detailed below:

Problems so far :-
I don't see a grub screen / image - so the screen is blank until the login screen
Searching the forums for a resolution

will update if I hit any other problems, or solve the above one
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System:    Host: Jools-Laptop Kernel: 4.13.0-38-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: N/A
           Distro: Peppermint Eight
Machine:   System: Hewlett-Packard (portable) product: HP Pavilion dv7 Notebook PC v: 049D210000241210000020000
           Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 3639 v: 33.22
           Bios: Hewlett-Packard v: F.10 date: 10/15/2009
CPU:       Dual core AMD Turion II Ultra Mobile M620 (-MCP-) cache: 2048 KB 
           clock speeds: max: 2500 MHz 1: 1100 MHz 2: 2300 MHz
Graphics:  Card: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/M92 [Mobility Radeon HD 4530/4570/545v]
           Display Server: X.Org 1.19.5 drivers: ati,radeon (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: 1600x900@60.00hz
           GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on AMD RV710 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.13.0-38-generic, LLVM 4.0.0)
           GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 17.0.2
Audio:     Card-1 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.13.0-38-generic
Network:   Card-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
           driver: ath9k
           IF: wlo2 state: up mac: <filter>
           Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169
           IF: enp9s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 500.1GB (4.0% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000BEVT size: 500.1GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 454G used: 15G (4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
           ID-2: /boot size: 472M used: 140M (32%) fs: ext2 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 4.29GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/dm-1
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 55.5C mobo: N/A
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 155 Uptime: 9 min Memory: 513.4/3942.7MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35

[alynur]

Hi nickp, welcome to Peppermint. This may not be an issue, how long does it take to boot up? From the looks of it, Peppermint is the only os you have installed on this machine. A typical spinner hard drive could take as long as a minute to boot up. I would also recommend you look into a DATA partition for Home folders, check out the User submitted Tutorials for more info.

[nickp]

Hi alynur,

thanks for the welcome. 
I haven't had much time to look at this since the install - work is getting in the way (too much of it at the moment, and not enough hours in the day).
The Logo / screen at startup is very hit and miss - mostly you don't get one, but every now and then you do - I'll investigate further when I have more time.

Good idea to set up a DATA partition, will do that, thanks.  I normally have one - but in this instance, just did a bog standard install to see what that setup.


Cheers,
Nick

[kloos]

I've got mine installed on a dv7 as well.  Boot up times are a bit random.  If it goes smoothly it will book up within 30 seconds (I am guessing as I am not at my laptop at the moment) but sometimes it gets stuck on a blank screen and so can take a couple of minutes to book.  Still not long, but slightly frustrating as I know that it can do it quicker.

Martin

[pin]

Hi alynur,

thanks for the welcome. 
I haven't had much time to look at this since the install - work is getting in the way (too much of it at the moment, and not enough hours in the day).
The Logo / screen at startup is very hit and miss - mostly you don't get one, but every now and then you do - I'll investigate further when I have more time.

Good idea to set up a DATA partition, will do that, thanks.  I normally have one - but in this instance, just did a bog standard install to see what that setup.

Cheers,
Nick

I almost never see the splash screen either, that doesn't mean something is wrong.
To be honest, I don't really care, usually I'm not looking at it anyway 

[jlschwartz]

Hi Nickp,
Welcome to the Peppermint forums.

[spence]

H/w as detailed below:

Problems so far :-
I don't see a grub screen / image - so the screen is blank until the login screen
Searching the forums for a resolution

will update if I hit any other problems, or solve the above one
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Welcome to Peppermint nickp! while I still had my HP,  boot times were also irregular... might start off investigating your HP bios settings for it's various boot options first....

spence

[kloos]

I had a DV7 running Peppermint 8.  It ran like a dream until the laptop broke (no fault of the OS)  Load times did vary somewhat but most of the time they were pretty quick, being around the one minute mark.