On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 13:15 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > William Case wrote: > > Hi Mikkel; > > > >> > > Yes. And that was where I was going to leave it. 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. > > > This should not be a problem. Because the part of Grub on the MBR > does not display anything - it just loads the next part of Grub. I understand the difference between stage1, (stage1_5) and stage2. > The > MBR on the second hard disk would not be used unless it was chained > to by another copy of Grub, That is the only possiblity left, I would think. In all the searching I have done, the video mode problem seems to be with grub2 -- not grub-0.97-33.fc9.x86_64 > or if you tell the BIOS to boot from the > second hard drive instead of the first. (Or if you swap the drives, > or remove the first drive...) > > > >> 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. > > > Unless Fedora modified Grub to use splash images, it would be a Grub > problem. It may be specific to your hardware combination. > I believe Fedora has substituted it's own splashimage, at least the splash image has the Fedora colours and logo + containing the grub menu selection rectangle . > 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
