On Sunday 12 Aug 2012 11:01:59 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:47:36 +0200 > > Alex Schuster <wo...@wonkology.org> wrote: > > Frank Steinmetzger writes: > > > So after the recent thread here about 32bit/64bit and some arguments > > > from a friend, I made the switch from 32 bit to 64 bit (with a clean > > > install from scratch of course). There’s one big problem I’m > > > having: I cannot see the Grub (legacy) boot menu. It still > > > functions alright, but I don’t see it. > > > > Weird, I have no idea. Just want to say that I am using legacy Grub on > > ~amd64 just fine. Not grub-static, and the static USE flag is not set. > > Never had a problem with that. > > > > Do you use a splashimage in your grub.conf? Maybe without you will > > get a working text mode Grub. Not that this should matter, but anyway. > > That's how I do it too. Plain old grub on many amd64 systems, nothing > special. I do disable splashimage too, it never seems to work for me > without using genkernel. > > When grub is running and showing it's menu, the only thing active > video-wise should be good old VGA. Hard to imagine what could go wrong > with VGA in 80x25 text mode
I have always used GRUB splashimage without genkernel and without anything special to get it going other than the correct path in /boot/grub/grub.conf; e.g. default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,9)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz -- Regards, Mick
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