Hi Mikkel; On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 10:54 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous "Double > > checking grub-install ??" lead off in all kinds of plausible directions. > > I think I now have more of a focus. > > > > To recap: > > > > I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot. I have a dual > > boot system with WindowsXP on sda and Fedora 9 on sdb. I have some > > experience with installing grub but made a typo type mistake during a > > grub install a month ago and I think (??) that might have been the root > > of my double splashimage problem. > > > If I remember correctly from the first thread, you would get a brief > flash on the screen with Fedora at the top of the screen, a short > pause, and then the proper splash screen with Fedora on the bottom. > This is a good indication that ether the video card or the monitor > are changing modes to properly display the splash screen. I would > suspect that it is the monitor changing modes to match the video output. > Yes. And that was where I was going to leave. There was a suggestion on the list that I should file a bug against grub. I was about to do that this morning and thought that I should check the first 512 bytes of each disk just to be sure. I checked and low and behold I found GRUB listed in the first block (mbr ??) of both disks. So I thought I should chase that down before I filed an inappropriate bug report. > While it will not prove this isn't the problem, it would be > interesting to see what happens if you log into the GUI, and then > hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 and see if you get the same kind behavior. > Ctrl-Alt-F1 gives me normal behaviour. No pauses or anything but straight to: Fedora 9 (Sulphur) kernel-2.6-etc. (tty1) CASE login: > Didn't the problem go away when you turned off the splash screen, > and ran Grub in the text mode? > Yes, it does. Which makes the problem a Fedora grub problem, not just a grub problem -- I would think. > Mikkel > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- 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
