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On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 02:31:07PM +0100, Mick wrote: |
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> > > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments |
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> > > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean |
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> > > > install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m |
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> > > > having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still |
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> > > > functions alright, but I don’t see it. |
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> > > […] |
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> > > Do you use a splashimage in your grub.conf? Maybe without you will |
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> > > get a working text mode Grub. Not that this should matter, but anyway. |
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Yes, I used to use a self-made spash image; it shows a Windows-Logo-like |
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stickers saying "Windows Vista incapable" with a Tux in it. :) |
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Anyways, the file was missing, so I commented out the line, but to no avail. |
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I tried a temporary grub.conf with the bare essentials (just one entry), and |
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it didn't help either. |
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Booting the same disk in qemu yields the same thing. So I gather it must be |
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some borkage in grub itself. Perhaps I could try an older version, there are |
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so many available right now. |
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> > When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing active |
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*cough* *wink wink* |
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> I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything |
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> special to get it going other than the correct path in /boot/grub/grub.conf; |
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> e.g. |
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> default 0 |
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> timeout 30 |
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> splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz |
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That's the way I used to too also. Very strange this all... |
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