Which video card is this? Which GRUB version? Obviously, it should be resorting to text mode on your hardware which it isn't. Try removing the splashimage line from grub.conf.
-M On Thu, June 22, 2006 1:18 pm, Robert Citek wrote: > > Is there a way to change video settings within grub? > > > On this one machine if I boot with grub the boot screen is scrambled > to the point where I can't read anything. If I wait or press enter, Linux > boots, changes the video, and all's well. If I boot the machine with > Knoppix which uses isolinux, the boot screen is fine. > > > I've looked at the grub manual[1] and see testvbe and vbeprobe. > testvbe tests the mode and vbeprobe queries information about the mode, but > no command seems to provide information about the current mode or change > the mode. For example, how can I have grub boot with vbe mode 0x12e? > > [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html > > > Regards, > - Robert > http://www.cwelug.org/downloads > Help others get OpenSource software. Distribute FLOSS > for Windows, Linux, *BSD, and MacOS X with BitTorrent > > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ > > _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
