Hi, On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:50:17 -0700 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On an install I'm trying to get working when grub comes up I get no > screen. It's just black. If I hit enter the machine starts booting > fine. Probably a misbehavin' VGA BIOS. I guess you're using grub in text mode? > Once it starts booing the first line or two looks good but then the > fonts become messed up and pretty much unreadable. It stays this way I > get to the two lines that say: > > Setting terminal to UTF-8 > Setting user font > > and then everything becomes readable. > > What kernel config items do I want to look at to fix this? None, most probably. You could however resort to use framebuffer console and experiment with vesa, vesa-tng or more specific framebuffer drivers. > Or is there possibly a boot line option for this sort of thing? I > am currently using no options at the boot line. In order to use the framebuffer, you might need to specify a "video" parameter. It's documented in the kernel's documentation. -hwh -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
