Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
One more thought - does the usual BIOS stuff show up properly?
konstantin mentioned 'bios resolution' and your are saying 'bios stuff'. not sure what konstantin means by 'bios resolution', tho i would guess 'graphics chip startup default'. i take it you mean 'bios stuff' as in what is displayed during 'cmos boot rom' start up. box i am using, a 2 year old, does not have any setup for video in bios. is there something that is now in newer cmos bios settings?
If so, as a temporary fix, you can turn off the splash image, and run Grub in the text mode. Just comment out the splash= line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and you should be able to select the system you want to boot.
good point about splash. i had copied my 'menu.lst' and 'grub.conf' to my desktop in this system to add to my last post, but, after spending 5 hrs of ancestry searching, i forget to add 2 files to post. 'grub.conf' is from f8 install, 'menu.lst' is from conversion mandriva made from 'lilo.conf' file, along with c&p from a different f8 install on this box. some some editing was done, but i did not have 'splash=' in installed file. note that 'menu.lst' does not have 'vga=794' in body, as i copied file before i checked for any change. which there was not. what would be nice if one could put a 'screen config preamble' in a file that is going to be displayed. then again... ++++ # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=hd00 rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img ++++ ++++ ### fn= menu.lst ## v= .2008.0531.1756 ## sys= fedora 8 # #boot=/dev/sda timeout 10 default 1 ## fedora 8 title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) sd0,0 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=sd00 \ acpi=force vga=794 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img ## title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) sd2,5 root (hd2,5) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=sd25 \ acpi=force vga=794 initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8-2.img ## mandriva 2k8.0 title mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3 kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \ BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \ resume=/dev/hdc2 acpi=force vga=794 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img # title mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3 net off kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \ BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \ resume=/dev/hdc2 acpi=force vga=794 init 2 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img # title failsafe mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3 kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \ BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \ acpi=force failsafe vga=794 initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img ++++ -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
