On Sunday 20 July 2008, Ivan Alden wrote:

> When I reboot I can't
> see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into
> my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up
> (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around
> the networking devices which then corrects and works properly.
...
> Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this?

Copy a grub splash image from /usr/share/grub/ or /usr/share/splashimages/ 
back into your /boot/grub/

The last grub upgrade has messed up your settings without asking you - 
unacceptable behaviour for an ebuild.
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Regards,
Mick