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 6AF951381F4 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:32:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA3FFE0574; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:32:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f53.google.com (mail-wg0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEEBAE051E for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbfm10 with SMTP id fm10so2056492wgb.10 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:31:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=D7Hk2FKD24SJSTmdKzEo+qLwzn3WQwX70aGB9Yq4mp4=; b=kxpvTFMJRZiwq80TPUhAJew6u7uvoK8b+xpDaPGx6nXqR+UBOHSz/vEUXPJG6wnCKl wqDozu3C8bAIHjUvbc3g1kCQjcyLab2Q6scqUAsPFLauch5Mlv2B/aJc7KzfwZjEd4aw k1EBAGlgf6Qg1AulUDIC0m6XzubwgDy+J0378XEV0ybp54YqhNYT66aCiQmpPIhRi48p 3FlOSf8AvLBu9mp3YkYm6O4Nt5zeo3b+PL6YMwEfn1SZOhJy5rzd50BHC8P0/jgqYMbL VJVc5irmFe7+7jHveXW8sBKAAoJ46f18XRGPPH8KhJ5Y4Gkm/LPwnjMizZP0NLEDBBUD KGWw== Received: by 10.180.81.38 with SMTP id w6mr10649138wix.10.1344778259957; Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:30:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet (230.3.169.217.in-addr.arpa. [217.169.3.230]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fr4sm15056912wib.8.2012.08.12.06.30.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 12 Aug 2012 06:30:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot see Grub menu Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 14:31:07 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.3.8-gentoo; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20120812000905.GA2684@eisen.lan> <20120812114736.241e1cb4@weird.wonkology.org> <20120812120159.0e646529@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120812120159.0e646529@khamul.example.com> 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1494586.kZaF1QpDzP"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201208121431.28057.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3bca4fa1-67fc-4f17-96f7-a10d8cd3d76f X-Archives-Hash: 167ebeb3c99f2111cb6a3b12a9b6d65b --nextPart1494586.kZaF1QpDzP Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200 >=20 > Alex Schuster 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=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. >=20 > 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. >=20 > 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= =20 special to get it going other than the correct path in /boot/grub/grub.conf= ;=20 e.g. default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=3D(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1494586.kZaF1QpDzP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlAnsC8ACgkQVTDTR3kpaLaJOACfWA9MBHBNJfcS1+FE3gAavoVD 0TcAnimMsUf6WAu4mVANYJ7/l1f7PyGX =hgXk -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1494586.kZaF1QpDzP--