On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 06:01:36PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 01:14:12PM -0400, Mike Hollis wrote:
> > I added my old boot statements to the appropiate menuentry thus:
> >
> > linux /boot/bzImage root=/dev/hda6 vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3
> >
> > but it booted to text mode, so I guess this is not correct.I would also
> > like to get the colors as in legacy.
> For the colours, I've no idea.
>
> If by "text mode" you mean "no penguin", it's nothing to do with
> grub. Either you didn't configure it to use a framebuffer (or,
> perhaps, FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE), or the the options you used are not
> appropriate to this kernel version. I know nothing about vesafb
> options, but I think I saw something about vga= on lkml earlier this
> year. Probably best to start with the ouptut from dmesg, to see if
> it gives any pointers.
Yes tux is missing and /proc/fb shows nothing. I have fbcon and vesafb
compiled into the kernel (not modules). These boot parameters work with
grub legacy to give me a graphical console with resolution 1024x768.I
have been booting out of debian on another partition using legacy grub
with this setup and not using the local grub2; I'm using it now with
tux and vesa present and accounted for.
I want to use these same parameters with grub2 . I have a lot of console
based apps set up to run like this and they don't work well in the
default text mode. Some like directfb and links2 not at all.
I found a reference to adding a line to /etc/default/grub to address
this but I didn't have this file. I created it and added :
#!/bin/sh
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vga=0x318 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3"
I removed the above part "vga=....." from the menuentry in grub.cfg
and ran grub-mkconfig again and grub added them in to the menuentry,
so I thought I had it fixed and ran grub-setup again but still no tux.
Apparently vesafb is not being initialized.I can use my old setup for
booting while I study grub2 so it's not a show stopper.
Thanks for the response.
--- Mike H.----
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