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From: Joshua D Doll <joshua.doll@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:25:35
Message-Id: 487510AA.2060808@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable by Andrew Tchernoivanov
1 Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
2 > Try add to grub.conf this line
3 >
4 > vga=0x31B
5 >
6 > This controls resolution and color depth of your framebuffer screen.
7 > You can read more about this at
8 > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10
9 > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=10>
10 >
11 > On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu
12 > <mailto:gottlieb@×××.edu>> wrote:
13 >
14 > The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add
15 >
16 > splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
17 >
18 > to my grub.conf
19 >
20 > Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was
21 > unreadable. Should I file this as a bug?
22 >
23 > thanks,
24 > allan
25 > --
26 > gentoo-user@l.g.o <mailto:gentoo-user@l.g.o>
27 > mailing list
28 >
29 >
30
31
32 splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded
33 at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to
34 a nonexistent file.
35
36 --Joshua Doll
37 --
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>