Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Isaac Conway <ike@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options.
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:24:28
Message-Id: 4897C7E9.6070704@conwaynetworks.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options. by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > Since doing some updates last week which I think included a grub
3 > update I no longer get a splash screen. I cannot see my options, but
4 > if I scroll down to a Gentoo boot then all fonts are messed up until
5 > the init scripts get to level 3 at which time they clear up and
6 > everything is fine.
7 >
8 > Did I miss some instructions about how to finish the grub install or
9 > something like that?
10 >
11 > Thanks,
12 > Mark
13 >
14 >
15 > timeout 15
16 > default 0
17 > splashimage=(hd0,8)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
18 >
19 > title WinXP
20 > #password --md5 $1$9QMGY1$VbDnYDEmfLDHgRGmcsdY5/
21 > rootnoverify (hd0,0)
22 > makeactive
23 > chainloader +1
24 >
25 > title 2.6.24-rc8-rt1
26 > root (hd0,8)
27 > kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.24-rc8-rt1 root=/dev/sda2
28 >
29 > title 2.6.24-rt1
30 > root (hd0,8)
31 > kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.24-rt1 root=/dev/sda2
32 >
33 > #title SERIAL 2.6.14-rc4-rt1
34 > #root (hd0,0)
35 > #kernel (hd0,0)/boot/bzImage-2.6.14-rc4-rt1 root=/dev/sda3
36 > console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0 nmi_watchdog=1 kernel_preempt=1
37 >
38 > #title 32-bit Gentoo Environment
39 > #root (hd0,8)
40 > #kernel (hd0,8)/boot/bzImage-2.6.15-gentoo-r1-32bit root=/dev/sda7
41 >
42 >
43 I think you will find that /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz no longer exists.
44 Seems that for some reason it was removed by that last grub update. If
45 you comment out that line, you should get an acceptable text boot screen.
46
47 Isaac C

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] no boot screen, cannot see options. Bob Sanders <rsanders@×××.com>