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