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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