On Sunday 06 Jan 2013 15:39:35 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:40:31 +0000
>
> Richard Collins <[email protected]> пишет:
> > > So that I understand what happens
> > >
> > > - you get GRUB2 screen. You see output and can use keyboard to navigate
> > >
> > > it. Right?
> >
> > Yes - the keyboard, mouse, network (and probably others) stopped working
> > when a 64bit kernel is running.
> >
> > > - GRUB2 screen itself is in text mode or in graphic mode?
> >
> > It's always been in text mode as far as I can remember
>
> Could you go to command line in GRUB2 (press 'c') and give output of
> command
>
> terminal_output
>
In it's current state with a visible bootup and the following settings:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=2
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
#GRUB_GFXMODE=normal
#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
# To stop the frame buffer interfering with the NVIDIA driver
#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/splashimages/gnucheese.xpm.gz
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=2
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""
terminal_output gives:
Active: gfxterm
Available: console serial_* serial
> > > - when you select GRUB2 menu entry to launch Linux you get messages
> > >
> > > about wrong mode and "booting blind". No output from Linux kernel
> > > after that. Correct?
> >
> > Yes - some HDD light flashing but as it's on a SSD it never flashes for
> > very long anyway. After disabling the automatic crypt disk mounting it
> > started performing checks on the harddrives and eventually started X
>
> And when X is started you get output, correct?
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