I am having some graphics issues using grub-legacy, and I'm struggling to find an answer.
I am currently working on fixing various bootloader issues with Debian live images generated by the live-build tool (the full list of which can be found in bug #775322 if you're interested). Today I have managed to come up with patches for fixing splash loading and other display issues for grub2, but I'm having trouble with grub-legacy. Booting the image in a virtualbox VM, grub-legacy displays the boot menu in what appears to be a 640x480 sized window, however the graphics are very poor. The default splash is a black image with a yellow construction worker helmet. What I am seeing is a background of alternating yellow and grey/black 1px vertical lines, and a blurry multi-coloured helmet. Multi-line output, e.g. by the vbeprobe is very slow, taking a couple of seconds per refresh of the output, so taking several moments to output the list. I am guessing that the graphics are not in the correct mode. The menu.lst config file, ignoring the menu entries (which only set kernel details and menu entry titles), only specifies the following: default 0 color cyan/blue white/blue splashimage /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz >From within command mode of the running copy of grub-legacy I have tried setting 'terminal graphics', which did nothing, and I have tried 'testvbe 0x143' (since 800x600x32 mode worked perfectly for me with a grub2 based image in the same VM), which just results in a load of flashing colour gradients, and upon that ending, dumps me at a black screen with a grey underscore character in the top left, where I can't seem to do anything (typed text does not appear), but playing around I can eventually get back to the menu as it was before. So, grub-legacy gurus, how do I fix this? (Please cc me, I don't subscribe to this mailing list). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54b71740.9030...@gmail.com
