T430 DisplayPort doesn't show pre-boot display

We have T430's (and X230's for that matter) connected to L2251x's via a Mini Dock Plus 3.
We also have McAfee SafeBoot installed, which has a pre-boot password prompt before hitting the Windows 7 OS. No matter what we do, we cannot output this pre-boot screen to the monitors when the laptop is docked with the lid closed.
I have tried looking around the nVidia control panel but found nothing. I've also tried changing the BIOS settings to use discrete graphics instead of nVidia but that breaks the resolution and Aero features.
Anyone else had this issue? Is there a solution?

The T430s I used to have drove all external LCD panels off the Intel HD 4000 GPU. Therefore, the BIOS setting had to be Integrated or Optimus. In additon to the display setting, while docked you should be able to specify which port receives the POST messages.
My W530 is different. The Discrete setting is required to see POST messages on an external LCD panel.

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Lnstalled Arch alongside windows 8.1 (uefi), grub doesn't show up

Hello people,
I've been following the Beginner's guide to install Arch on my laptop (HP) via the arch.iso on usb flash drive. I have windows 8.1 already installed and I'd like to install Arch alongside it, in uefi mode too.
I could follow most of the steps in the guide, installing arch, grub, ran pacstrap, installed lxde, gummiboot, efibootmgr, etc. But in the end when I reboot, grub doesn't show up and Windows 8.1 boots instead. I even used efibootmgr to display the order of booting (and seeing that Windows was in front of grub), changed the order of booting but to no avail; when rebooted, Windows booted up.
Some information: My efi partition was created by Windows so I used the same partition for Arch's uefi, namely /dev/sda2.
I've got a / partition at /dev/sda6 and a swap partition at /dev/sda7.
I've perfomed the commands
grub-install /dev/sda
but was told that it was wrong (on IRC) and thus I later installed it on the efi partition.
I generated grub.cfg twice:
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.conf
but I was told that this was wrong and so I also did
grub-mkconfig -o /mnt/boot/efi/grub.conf
because the efi partition was mounted at /mnt/boot/efi.
I've also created some files related to gummiboot as the Arch wiki stated to do and set Arch as default OS to boot, but that didn't seem to work.
Lastly I've also booted into the firmware and I have set to boot from usb first, then OS. (I don't see Linux/Windows choices there, only OS). And yes I disabled secure and fast boot.
P.S.:This is my first Arch installation, I come from Lubuntu/Manjaro and I bought this hardware for the purpose of learning Arch Linux (so I really, really, really want to install Arch on it).
Thanks for any help!
Last edited by linux_dream (2015-05-17 22:43:29)

JeromeDGDG wrote:Hello linux_dream.
First, archlinux is for boot exactly the same than other linux distributions. It mount by a boot manager first (grub for exemple).
So, first of all, you absolutly need to creat a /boot partition with some required tools (have some differents) and then, mount it on /boot. This partition need to be FAT32 with around 512MB (mine is 256MB and works fine) and be gpt/UEFI and bootable. There is specific parameters to pass to the tool at format partition time (but if you followed the wiki, all of this is ok now...).
Hello Jérome,
I do have an uefi partition (FAT32) thanks to Windows. It is on /dev/sda2, so I mounted it as /mnt/boot/efi where I had mounted /mnt as root.
JeromeDGDG wrote:
Then...
you have to see the /boot partition you created on your BIOS. The bios, is the first thinks the computer run at boot time (before everythings). Then go inside your bios and check options around boot and see boot list (sometimes, when change config, you have to reboot again the bios for see the changes on boot list appears). Then on your boot list from BIOS, you have to see your grub /boot partition (mine is named égrub_archlinux" viewed by the boot list of my bios) and make it boot first (or just after usb and cdrom if you prefer...). If not, this grub will never been mounted and windows will start first.
Also, if you are confused with command tools on linux systems and you not sure your partition boot is not well created, you can easily used gparted gui tools (do a bootable cdrom and use it for partitions or check...).
In the BIOS I don't see anything related to grub nor Arch. However in the uefi settings, I do. To access these settings is tedious, I need to boot Windows, click on reboot while maintaining the Shift key, selecting "troubleshooting", go to uefi settings, reboot and then press F9 to enter there. There I can see grub, Arch and Windows and I can enter in Arch from there. So I don't need the arch.iso flash drive anymore, I prefer to boot from my hard disk.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
That doesn't make much sense -- you say you have "installed gummiboot" but also that "Windows was in front of grub [sic]" in your NVRAM entries -- which did you install, GRUB or gummiboot?
Also, installing a desktop environment (LXDE) is mentioned nowhere in the Beginner's Guide.
I installed both Grub and gummiboot (in that order). Yeah I installed LXDE because I thought everything went fine (grub recognized Arch when it generated the .cfg file), I only saw the problems when I rebooted: grub doesn't show up.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
The actual command you should use is:
# grub-install --target=x86_64-efi --efi-directory=$esp --bootloader-id=grub --recheck
I did that command too, where I took care to replace $esp by /mnt/boot/efi if I remember well. The command worked.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
Again, the command should be:
# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
As stated in the ArchWiki page I have linked above.
Make sure you have mounted all your partitions and used `arch-chroot` before running these commands.
I did that command, it generated files and recognized 3 images (linux, initramfs and another thing I don't remember). Again, if I remember well.
head_on_a_stick wrote:
Please post the content of /boot/loader/loader.conf & /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf (if that is what you've called it) and the output of:
lsblk -f
ls -R /boot
# parted -l
# efibootmgr -v
Again, run all these commands after you have mounted all your partitions and used `arch-chroot` from the live Arch ISO.
You can use sprunge to generate a link to their pastebin for the command output:
<command> | curl -F 'sprunge=<-' http://sprunge.us
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Li … in_clients
Unfortunately I'm having a very hard time to make the curl command work, I think that it's due to my keyboard layout and I can't seem to write the correct apostrophes (mines seem curvy) nor the correct " sign. Here's the error that I get (manually copied):
returned Warning: Illegally formatted input field!
curl: option -F: is badly used here.
curl: try 'curl --help' or 'curl --manual' for more information
. I've been seeking help for around 20 minutes on #archlinux (IRC) to no avail thus far.
So I entered some of the commands you mentionned and I took some photos of them. See the 5 photos at https://imgur.com/QN8FBZ1,RLbSe2u,73o1w … ,aBTxNNF#0
Of course it would be much better if I could find a way to make the curl command work.

Possible to move boot display to different DVI port? (GTX780)

I doubt this is possible, but just in case : is it possible to force boot screens to a different port on the video card?
The MSI GTX780 has two DVI ports - one DVI-I (which includes analog display) and DVI-D (which does not). The DVI-I port displays the boot screen, BIOS, and anything that shows before Windows is fully loaded.
I currently have two monitors. My primary monitor can connect via DVI, and since it is a 120HZ monitor, it currently uses a dual link cable. The secondary monitor is older and cannot connect via DVI, so I use a DVI-I-to-VGA adapter and a standard VGA cable for that display. Unfortunately, this means that the secondary monitor shows boot/BIOS/etc.
Is it possible to move the boot display to the DVI-D port on the card?
Please note that this is not a big issue - having the secondary monitor show boot info is a minor annoyance at worst. The secondary monitor also has HDMI-in, so I can buy a cable and use that, and then move the primary monitor to the DVI-I port. I do want to avoid spending more money, but mostly, I want to see if it is possible to force the boot screens to another port. This seems like it might be a very interesting way to learn about the video card (and VBIOS, if changing that is necessary to do this).
Thank you.

In the "Arrangement" pane of "Displays" System Preference, drag the picture of the menu bar to the picture of the other display.

IPhone 3GS doesn't show up in iTunes

(Sorry for the length of this, but I want to make sure that I don't leave out anything that I've done.)
It all started last week when I installed Starcraft 2 on my Mac mini (the new one that came out in June 2010). Starcraft 2 crashed frequently due to the nVidia driver issues in 10.6.4, so the next day I re-installed OS X from the DVD that came with my computer to rollback to 10.6.3. Starcraft 2 worked better, but that's beside the point.
Later that day I noticed that iTunes didn't show my iPhone 3GS when it was connected (I have had zero problems with this since I got my Mac mini last month). (I'm using iTunes 9.2.1, by the way). I searched a bit, and found the instructions to Uninstall and reinstall iTunes (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1224). I followed the instructions, and everything worked quite well.
At this point, I thought the problem was either due to my re-install of OS X or Starcraft 2 (I'm using a USB headset, which could somehow be related).
I was having other issues with Starcraft 2 at this point, so I decided to install Windows XP SP3 via Boot Camp. I did this, installed Starcraft 2, and played away.
When I rebooted into OS X, again I noticed that my iPhone wasn't showing up in iTunes. I started to follow the uninstall steps again, and this time I noticed that iTunesHelper wasn't running. It wasn't running because it wasn't in the list of login items to run when my account logs in. Since I was part way through uninstalling anyway, I continued with the process and then reinstalled iTunes. Once again, iTunes saw my iPhone fine. This time I also manually added iTunesHelper to my login items (I had to right click iTunes.app, Show Package Contents, navigate to iTunesHelper.app, and drag it into the list of Login items; I did check the Hide checkbox, since I recalled it being checked during the first uninstall).
It was a few days before I checked iTunes again (I rebooted a few times in here to play Starcraft 2 in Windows; note that I haven't ran Starcraft 2 in OS X since I installed Windows XP previously). However, once again my iPhone wasn't in iTunes.
Since I want to sync my iPhone today, I once again follow the uninstall iTunes process. This time, after installing it and verifying that my iPhone shows up in iTunes (again, I had to manually add iTunesHelper to my login items), I immediately rebooted and connected my iPhone. It didn't show up in iTunes (which I kind of expected at this point). I verified that iTunesHelper was indeed running.
I also tried connecting my wife's iPod touch (first generation), but it doesn't show up in iTunes either (not that I expected it to).
I've tried changing the USB port the dock connector is connected to, but that doesn't seem to matter. I did not change the port during the last reboot attempt, so I do not think that the port itself is bad. I have it connected to one of the ports on the back of the Mac mini, not to one of the ports on my keyboard. Also, my iPhone does charge when connected to this port even if iTunes doesn't recognize it.
At this point it sounds like the iTunes 9.2.1 installer doesn't do something that is required for the iPhone to be recognized by iTunes after a reboot, even though it sets things up properly right after installation. Based on the uninstall instructions, I compared the iTunes related files on my Mac with my wife's (a MacBook from early 2008, if that matters), and everything seems to be in place.
I've seen quite a few other posts here regarding issues with iPhones (and iPod touches) not showing up in iTunes, so apparently this is a common issue, but none of them seemed to help my problem.
Do you have any ideas of anything else I can try?
Thank you very much!

I think my problem is fixed now.
For the fun of it, I reinstalled iTunes 9.2.1 today (using the exact same installer as I did yesterday), but this time I didn't uninstall iTunes first. As expected, iTunes recognized my iPhone (as I expected it to, until my next reboot).
A few minutes later, Software Update showed up and among the updates is "iPhone SDK Compatibility Update". The description indicates that installing this should fix an issue where iPhones and iPod touches aren't recognized by iTunes. Isn't that interesting?
I installed that update and most of the others waiting for me (including Java, Safari 5.0.1, and a few others - not 10.6.4 though, due to the issues with nVidia graphics cards). After the reboot, I started iTunes, and it saw my iPhone!
So, if you're having this same problem, I'd recommend tracking down this update and see if that does the trick for you. Hopefully it will.

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