On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200 Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.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 -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
