On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 09:27:39PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 04:34:25PM -0400, Mike Hollis wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > > > Based on your previous post where you said that these options are > on the 'linux' line within grub.cfg, I still maintain that it is NOT > a grub problem but a kernel problem. You say those parameters work > in an existing setup: with the exact same kernel version and > .config ? If you reply 'yes' to that then I'm dumbfounded and out > of ideas. If not, I repeat "look at what dmesg says". > > Best of luck! > The /etc/default idea was from an Ubuntu forum.So it probably is a debianism.
Yes, same kernel and config. Works with legacy grub, works with grub2 but no fb console graphics. I think I may install legacy. I have some partition shuffling I want to do and I need for the bootloader to fully functional on this partition. Since I already had Grub2, I thought I'd try it. Thanks, Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
