From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:31:07 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201208121431.28057.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120812120159.0e646529@khamul.example.com>
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On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200
>
> Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org> wrote:
> > Frank Steinmetzger writes:
> > > 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’s one big problem I’m
> > > having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still
> > > functions alright, but I don’t see it.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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
I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything
special to get it going other than the correct path in /boot/grub/grub.conf;
e.g.
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
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Regards,
Mick
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-12 0:09 [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 1:33 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12 1:41 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 2:28 ` Mark Knecht
2012-08-12 3:10 ` Dale
2012-08-13 9:18 ` Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
2012-08-13 11:21 ` Michael Hampicke
2012-08-12 9:47 ` Alex Schuster
2012-08-12 10:01 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-12 13:31 ` Mick [this message]
2012-08-12 22:52 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-12 23:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-08-13 1:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2012-08-13 8:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-13 17:43 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-14 0:16 ` [OT] " Peter Humphrey
2012-08-14 7:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-08-12 23:14 ` Dale
2012-08-13 17:46 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-08-13 21:31 ` Mick
2012-08-12 18:52 ` Michael Mol
2012-08-12 19:34 ` Mick
2012-08-12 20:06 ` Michael Mol
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