If I disable the "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" parameter then GRUB does not tell Linux anything. I assume that GRUB (or is it the Linux kernel?) switches back to 80x25 text mode and the whole boot process completes without problems. No black screen.
Markus Hamilton. On 5/6/2015 17:46, Ben Hutchings wrote: > Control: retitle -1 [REGRESSION] vmwgfx black screen until X started > > On Wed, 2015-05-06 at 16:43 -0400, Markus Hamilton wrote: >> Package: src:linux >> Version: 3.16.7-ckt9-3~deb8u1 >> Severity: important >> >> The installation has been a Debian 7 system in a VMware Workstation 11 >> environment which runs under Windows 7x64 on a HP G61 laptop. There is no >> display manager installed. Linux just boots to a console login prompt. X11 is >> started manually after login using "startx". The vesa mode for Linux is set >> in >> /etc/default/grub using "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=1366x768x8". The kernel >> package >> used in Debian 7 was linux-image-3.2.0-4-amd64. > [...] > > Does this also happen if you don't tell GRUB to set the screen mode for > Linux? > > Ben. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org