Encrypted Elementary doesn't boot on first try

Question

After installing nvidia-370 drivers from official PPA, I cannot boot into my system from first try. So, basically each time I try to start my machine, after initial bios diagnostics it produces this:

Text is mine. What I meant to say - it should have allowed me to enter password, but it doesn't. No terminals are available either.

Then, after force shutdown and reboot, I get this: On which I successfully can enter my password and boot up the system.

So my question is - how do I fix this? The best solution would be to enable decrypting elementary using standard text-box (on first screen), but if it's not possible, I agree for console option.

Answer 1

Actually, that seems like a regular problem across Linux, when people try to use NVIDIA drivers and encrypted file-system. Plymouth doesn't play well with NVIDIA.

The temporary solution is to disable splash screen during boot: sudo nano /etc/default/grub

In editor, change GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="splash quiet" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nosplash quiet". Make the same adjustments to theGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX if it's not empty.

And then update grub using sudo update-grub.

Hope it helps somebody.

More info:

1. Cannot enter password to start Ubuntu

2. passphrase input-box for encrypted disk is not shown

3. Password not accepted graphical boot for encrypted root system