vesafb seems to be unreliable when using BIOS compat mode.
---
On Gentoo Linux, we are getting frequent reports of a "black screen" after
the Linux kernel has been loaded. Hopefully this will resolve it.
ChangeLog | 5 +++++
util/grub.d/10_linux.in | 4 +++-
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 190d19d..dff8342 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-10-17 Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org>
+
+ * util/grub.d/10_linux.in: Default gfxpayload=keep only when booting
+ using efi. vesafb seems to be unreliable when using BIOS compat mode.
+
2014-10-14 Andrei Borzenkov <arvidj...@gmail.com>
* grub-core/loader/arm/linux.c: Use full initializer for initrd_ctx to
diff --git a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
index d2e2a8f..a54b888 100644
--- a/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
+++ b/util/grub.d/10_linux.in
@@ -104,7 +104,9 @@ linux_entry ()
echo " load_video" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
if grep -qx "CONFIG_FB_EFI=y" "${config}" 2> /dev/null \
&& grep -qx "CONFIG_VT_HW_CONSOLE_BINDING=y" "${config}" 2>
/dev/null; then
- echo " set gfxpayload=keep" | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
+ echo ' if [ "x$grub_platform" = xefi ]; then' | sed
"s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
+ echo " set gfxpayload=keep" | sed
"s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
+ echo ' fi' | sed "s/^/$submenu_indentation/"
fi
else
if [ "x$GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX" != xtext ]; then
--
2.1.2
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