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On 9/21/13 1:19 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: |
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> I wasn't able to reproduce this in qemu. It is possible that GRUB's |
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> graphical terminal driver has some issues with VMWare. |
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> However, have a Gentoo box at work that runs GRUB2 on VMWare ESX, and |
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> I don't recall having any display issues on the console. But I'm also |
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> not chainloading it there. |
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Thanks for testing this. I've tried without chainloading and it was also |
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broken. |
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However, I got it to work later, and there are at least two solutions: |
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1. In /etc/default/grub, uncomment GRUB_TERMINAL=console line and re-run |
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grub2-mkconfig. |
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2. In /etc/default/grub, add GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text line and re-run |
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grub2-mkconfig. |
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Actually Arch wiki article mentions something very similar: |
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<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Disable_framebuffer> |
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Also, it seems worth it to add to the guide info about how to roll back |
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just in case. Running grub-install /dev/sda works just fine (it invokes |
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grub legacy as opposed to grub2). |
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Then, looking at Arch wiki article, it's probably a good idea to make |
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backup: |
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<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Backup_important_data> . I |
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recommend adding this to our guide. |
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Paweł |
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