Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread g
William Case wrote: None of the usual file finders was showing me anything useful. being that it is 'boot sector', usual file finders would not show it. something like 'norton disk doctor' will, as it saved my butt many times when i was using oos. i learned early how well it worked for saving

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi g; Good question, good point. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 21:42 +, g wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > As I said, the double splash image doesn't prevent me from doing > > anything, so I'll let it sit for a couple of days. If no one (including > > me) comes up with a solution, I will file a b

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread g
William Case wrote: As I said, the double splash image doesn't prevent me from doing anything, so I'll let it sit for a couple of days. If no one (including me) comes up with a solution, I will file a bug against it. I just had the objective of after the fresh install of F9, working on cleanin

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Thanks Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 12:28 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing > >> modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu? Not a dumb question. The flash lasts about 1/2 second. Just long enough for eyes to cat

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
stan wrote: It sounds like you know more about grub than I do, so I can't give you any incisive insight. But your comment above made me wonder if this is a video driver issue rather than a grub issue. Have you tried the opposite driver. i.e. if you are using the closed source driver for your c

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi Stan; You well might be right. On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 09:17 -0700, stan wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Mikkel; > > > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > >> > >> Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing > >> modes, and not a longer

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread stan
William Case wrote: Hi Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu? Not a dumb question. The flash lasts about 1/2 second. Just long e

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread William Case
Hi Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > My grub.conf contains the following line. > > > > splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > > I altered my splashimage line slightly by putting a single space > > between 'splashimage=(hd1,4)' a

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
William Case wrote: My grub.conf contains the following line. splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz I altered my splashimage line slightly by putting a single space between 'splashimage=(hd1,4)' and '/grub/splash.xpm.gz'. The (hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz is a complete path/file name. When you

Re: Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

2008-06-26 Thread William Case
Hi All; On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 20:04 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi Tim; > > On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 07:35 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 10:28 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > When I first boot I get the Fedora grub splash screen/menu twice -- > > > besides that everything else boots