From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAA9713800E for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:05:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3602E0453; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com (mail-wg0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4B0DE039A for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 10:02:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so2231419wgb.4 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:02:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=oH9JEXWERvPgZUqKW5Ud0hJcxfFkE2FJU1FXU1I3UNM=; b=I1OdOe9LrfF40Tuv3ZphMbqDRX1lJ+R8YzLJ5bNkeQtFbVrMq/sqp4NeDf3uGAe2Zn b5r1Q7c0UJhLdQdou1JwNs31uoBusn3ZFAvknvXuBgeTtMnOZKPCl1KsttUNxuFyivVi yzPfUoi76MLTx8zAZbgYgsCD3cHWUlx86CXO2sZo8NJyXzvhiUSMKbS1U6tHu9SgAGhJ wWuts8ziqWdgjZf1jnJYJXs+qbO3PJ3dQ16XUgxnUdpI1EtTKeHbEhN8hx+G8rQa/+mY RPI8+REa7hnMDfz3nJpIEqtQTMpnRGZkgBR3LTAC/BqV5i773X6CpOncLtHXvubZMtba pbjA== Received: by 10.180.86.106 with SMTP id o10mr9600135wiz.22.1344765773886; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:02:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-210-183-133.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.183.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ep14sm9936393wid.0.2012.08.12.03.02.51 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 12 Aug 2012 03:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 12:01:59 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Message-ID: <20120812120159.0e646529@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120812114736.241e1cb4@weird.wonkology.org> References: <20120812000905.GA2684@eisen.lan> <20120812114736.241e1cb4@weird.wonkology.org> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 7d955dfd-2c2e-4234-b84f-5a9b97685957 X-Archives-Hash: 0940d4bff3acec31c8f79a994386f041 On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: > Frank Steinmetzger writes: >=20 > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean > > install from scratch of course). There=E2=80=99s one big problem I=E2= =80=99m > > having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still > > functions alright, but I don=E2=80=99t see it. >=20 > Weird, I have no idea. Just want to say that I am using legacy Grub on > ~amd64 just fine. Not grub-static, and the static USE flag is not set. > Never had a problem with that. >=20 > Do you use a splashimage in your grub.conf? Maybe without you will > get a working text mode Grub. Not that this should matter, but anyway. That's how I do it too. Plain old grub on many amd64 systems, nothing special. I do disable splashimage too, it never seems to work for me without using genkernel. When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing active video-wise should be good old VGA. Hard to imagine what could go wrong with VGA in 80x25 text mode --=20 Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com