Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu

[Dale]

Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>>>>> 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.
>>>> […]
>>>> 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.
> Yes, I used to use a self-made spash image; it shows a Windows-Logo-like
> stickers saying "Windows Vista incapable" with a Tux in it. :)
>
> Anyways, the file was missing, so I commented out the line, but to no avail.
> I tried a temporary grub.conf with the bare essentials (just one entry), and
> it didn't help either.
>
> Booting the same disk in qemu yields the same thing.  So I gather it must be
> some borkage in grub itself.  Perhaps I could try an older version, there are
> so many available right now.
>
>>> When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing active
> ---------------------------------------^
> *cough* *wink wink*
>
>> 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
> That's the way I used to too also.  Very strange this all...


Just a thought.  Could it be that the text and the background is the
same color?  If you put white text on a white background, all you see is
white which looks blank, empty or whatever you want to call it. 

Otherwise, I'm clueless.  It's OK.  I'm used to being clueless.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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