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On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when |
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> I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB |
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> screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press |
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> Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a blank screen. |
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> I tried setting: |
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> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text |
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> in /etc/default/grub, but that doesn't do anything. |
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> Halp! I need my consoles back! |
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OK, figured it out. It's not possible to get a VGA text mode console |
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with EFI. The reason is that EFI was designed by morons. The only way to |
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get a console is to use a graphics mode framebuffer. But then my |
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graphics driver complains: |
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NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console |
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NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver |
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NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console |
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NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in |
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NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported. |
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What a bunch of idiots. |
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