Hi Alexander, > One obvious difference is that Ubuntu and Fedora (who has a duplicate > bug) use Plymouth, while Gentoo doesn't. To test the theory, could you > please remove the "splash vt.handoff=7" parameters from the kernel > command line? Tried removing that still boots to a blank screen. Only way to get a grpahical desktop is to have nomodeset. Thanks for your reply. Regards, -- Babar Haq