Hi Mikkel; On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > My grub.conf contains the following line. > > > > splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > > > > I altered my splashimage line slightly by putting a single space > > between 'splashimage=(hd1,4)' and '/grub/splash.xpm.gz'. > > > The (hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz is a complete path/file name. When > you add a space, you created an invalid file name. Think of the > difference between /var/log/messages and / var/log/messages. > I realize. But in desperation, one starts trying all sorts of things. The point of my mentioning it, was that with a bare bones menu screen there was no double image. > > When I re-booted instead of the Fedora splash image, I got a bare bones > > colourless square with menu items -- which in itself is not surprising. > > > > But also, I no longer saw a double flash of that menu. It was a very > > quick load, straight to the menu window. I retried it with the space > > removed but the whole splashimage line commented out. Again I saw a > > very quickly, single copy, skeleton menu load. > > > > On both occasions there was not a hint of a Fedora splash image coming > > from an extra stage2. > > > > Before I make a fool of myself by reporting this as a bug, does this > > look like a bug to you? If so, why haven't others seen it. > > > Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing > modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu? Not a dumb question. The flash lasts about 1/2 second. Just long enough for eyes to catch a Fedora blue screen, the word Fedora at the top of the screen, and, the beginning of a menu box being written. Then the screen blanks for 2 - 3 seconds ( I have tried to count the times off) and finally the splash image is fully redrawn. When it loads for the second time the Fedora name is at the bottom. I mention that in support of your idea it may be the video changing: maybe in the first instance the splash image is not getting drawn properly. Another thing, this started in F8. I hadn't made the connection until now and it just might be my frustration making invalid assumptions. Keeping in mind I don't boot THAT often in order to always notice exactly when the issue started. But, two or three months ago, I installed a new motherboard switching from an ATI video card to a Nvidia on board video chip. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
