Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

[Mick]

On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
>
> Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
> > Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments
> > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean
> > > install from scratch of course).  There’s one big problem I’m
> > > having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu.  It still
> > > functions alright, but I don’t see it.
> >
> > Weird, I have no idea. Just want to say that I am using legacy Grub on
> > ~amd64 just fine. Not grub-static, and the static USE flag is not set.
> > Never had a problem with that.
> >
> > Do you use a splashimage in your grub.conf? Maybe without you will
> > get a working text mode Grub. Not that this should matter, but anyway.
>
> That's how I do it too. Plain old grub on many amd64 systems, nothing
> special. I do disable splashimage too, it never seems to work for me
> without using genkernel.
>
> When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing active
> video-wise should be good old VGA. Hard to imagine what could go wrong
> with VGA in 80x25 text mode

I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything 
special to get it going other than the correct path in /boot/grub/grub.conf; 
e.g.

default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

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Regards,
Mick