Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Andrew Tchernoivanov
Try add to grub.conf this line vga=0x31B This controls resolution and color depth of your framebuffer screen. You can read more about this at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10 On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote: Try add to grub.conf this line vga=0x31B This controls resolution and color depth of your framebuffer screen. You can read more about this at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1chap=10

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Allan Gottlieb ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [09.07.08 20:04]: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? Your kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to a nonexistent file. Grub hangs if that's the case. -- Neil Bothwick A single fact can

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my kernel the screen was unreadable. Should I file this as a bug? The fact

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is pointing to a nonexistent file. Grub hangs if that's the case. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700 Joshua D Doll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:25:30 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: splashimage has nothing to with the kernel. The kernel isn't even loaded at this point. It's very likely that the splashimage line is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:16 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:02:59 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: The latest stable emerge of grub decided to add splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz to my grub.conf Since I do not have support for this in my

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Denis
Thanks for this thread. I had a bunch of gibberish on the screen, too, after the most recent emerge and figured it was grub but didn't know why. Strangely, the splash image was missing from /boot/grub - is it not supposed to be in /boot or was this an ebuild error?? I found the splash image

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:30:12 -0400 Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for this thread. I had a bunch of gibberish on the screen, too, after the most recent emerge and figured it was grub but didn't know why. Strangely, the splash image was missing from /boot/grub - is it not supposed to

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it still works. Did the wrong path point to something? When I got

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it still works. Did the

Re: [gentoo-user] grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable

2008-07-09 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote: Grub hangs if that's the case. I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable