[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Matt Harrison]

I just updated grub as part of my regular updates and it gave me the 
message that I should re-install grub to my MBR otherwise stage1 and 
stage2 would mismatch.

I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the 
bootloader without problems.

However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the 
screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't 
boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems.

I'm just wondering what might've happened to cause grub to become 
invisible. My splash image, grub.conf and everything looks fine and 
worked perfectly before the update.

Any ideas welcome.

Thanks

Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Dmitry S. Makovey]

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On July 14, 2008, Matt Harrison wrote:
> I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the
> bootloader without problems.
>
> However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the
> screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't
> boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems.

same here on 2 independent machines. Each one exhibits same problem. It's not 
completely broken but sure as heck is annoying. Did I miss some "new" 
configuration step you have to do with Grub?

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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This problem was already posted here.
The idea is that splashimage moved from /boot/grub to /usr/share/grub.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:52 AM, Dmitry S. Makovey <dmitry@athabascau.ca>
wrote:

> On July 14, 2008, Matt Harrison wrote:
> > I ran grub-install as normal and it (apparently) installed the
> > bootloader without problems.
> >
> > However, now, when I boot up, I don't get a grub menu or anything on the
> > screen. Originally I thought there was a problem and my system wouldn't
> > boot but I tried pressing return and it booted up without problems.
>
> same here on 2 independent machines. Each one exhibits same problem. It's
> not
> completely broken but sure as heck is annoying. Did I miss some "new"
> configuration step you have to do with Grub?
>
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> Dmitry Makovey
> Web Systems Administrator
> Athabasca University
> (780) 675-6245
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Matt Harrison]

Andrew Tchernoivanov wrote:
> This problem was already posted here.
> The idea is that splashimage moved from /boot/grub to /usr/share/grub.

Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just 
give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with 
splash) as you would expect.

I'm not too keen on this new behaviour but at least it should be easy to 
fix.

Thanks

Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Matt Harrison]

Matt Harrison wrote:
> Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just 
> give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with 
> splash) as you would expect.

Sorry that should read:

ie the normal menu but without splash
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem too, along
with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your
grub.conf

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 3:16 AM, Matt Harrison <iwasinnamuknow@genestate.com>
wrote:

> Matt Harrison wrote:
>
>> Thats strange, when the splashimage line was incorrect it used to just
>> give you the menu with a black background (ie the normal menu but with
>> splash) as you would expect.
>>
>
> Sorry that should read:
>
> ie the normal menu but without splash
>
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>

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Sebastian Günther]

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* Andrew Tchernoivanov (tchernoivanov@gmail.com) [15.07.08 01:41]:
> Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem too, along
> with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your
> grub.conf
> 
Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther is a 
grub option called like that.

There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help with 
the grub issue.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Sebastian

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Andrew Tchernoivanov]

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>There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help with
>the grub issue.

Sorry, my mistake.

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Sebastian Günther <
samson@guenther-roetgen.de> wrote:

> * Andrew Tchernoivanov (tchernoivanov@gmail.com) [15.07.08 01:41]:
> > Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem too, along
> > with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your
> > grub.conf
> >
> Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther is a
> grub option called like that.
>
>
>
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> Sebastian
>
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>
>  SEB@STI@N GÜNTHER         mailto:samson@guenther-roetgen.de
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[dhk]

Sebastian Günther wrote:
> * Andrew Tchernoivanov (tchernoivanov@gmail.com) [15.07.08 01:41]:
>> Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem too, along
>> with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding vga=0x31B to your
>> grub.conf
>>
> Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther is a 
> grub option called like that.
> 
> There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help with 
> the grub issue.
> 
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> Sebastian
> 
So what is the solution to making grub visible again?  I remember when 
it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't 
know the fix.

Running emerge --config grub doesn't work.

Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to 
/usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install?

Thanks,
Dave
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Matt Harrison]

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dhk wrote:
| So what is the solution to making grub visible again?  I remember when
| it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I still don't
| know the fix.
|
| Running emerge --config grub doesn't work.
|
| Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to
| /usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install?

I changed grub.conf so it points to the splashimage on my /usr partition
like so:

splashimage=(hd0,5)/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Just make sure you get the partition number right, remembering that grub
counts paritions from 0, not 1. This fixed it perfectly for me.

HTH

Matt
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Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu working but invisible

[Miika Linnapuomi]

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:47:52 +0000
dhk <dhkuhl@optonline.net> wrote:

> Sebastian Günther wrote:
> > * Andrew Tchernoivanov (tchernoivanov@gmail.com) [15.07.08 01:41]:
> >> Are the characters on the screen readable?  I had this problem
> >> too, along with the black grub screen. If they aren't - try adding
> >> vga=0x31B to your grub.conf
> >>
> > Why should that help with grub? Did not found any hint, that ther
> > is a grub option called like that.
> > 
> > There is a *kernel* option, called like that, but that won't help
> > with the grub issue.
> > 
> > Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> > 
> > Sebastian
> > 
> So what is the solution to making grub visible again?  I remember
> when it changed, I didn't understand the message displayed and I
> still don't know the fix.
> 
> Running emerge --config grub doesn't work.
> 
> Is it as simple as changing the path of the splash image to 
> /usr/share/grub/ and running grub-install?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dave


Just cp /usr/share/grub/splash.xpm.gz /boot/grub/

Or you could point to it in /usr, unless if you have /usr in lvm or
something else that grub wont be able to see


Miika

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