Rebooting a BDA Server Leads to a Black Screen with Blinking Cursor Instead of the Grub Menu

(Doc ID 2142573.1)

Last updated on APRIL 09, 2018

Applies to:

Big Data Appliance X5-2 Hardware - Version All Versions and later
Linux x86-64

Symptoms

Rebooting a BDA server gets to the point where the grub menu should show up but instead of that a black screen with blinking cursor is visible.

It looks like the USB drive is corrupted



Cause

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