Am 11.05.2014 15:36, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > On 11/05/14 15:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> I've switched from GRUB 1 to GRUB 2 and am booting in EFI mode. Now when >> I boot Gentoo, I get no console. The screen is just stuck in the GRUB >> screen until X11 starts. I see no kernel messages. When I press >> Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to a console, I only get a blank screen. >> >> I tried setting: >> >> GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text >> >> in /etc/default/grub, but that doesn't do anything. >> >> Halp! I need my consoles back! > > OK, figured it out. It's not possible to get a VGA text mode console > with EFI. The reason is that EFI was designed by morons. The only way to > get a console is to use a graphics mode framebuffer. But then my > graphics driver complains: > > NVRM: Your system is not currently configured to drive a VGA console > NVRM: on the primary VGA device. The NVIDIA Linux graphics driver > NVRM: requires the use of a text-mode VGA console. Use of other console > NVRM: drivers including, but not limited to, vesafb, may result in > NVRM: corruption and stability problems, and is not supported.
Yep, I see that on my desktop system as well ... never really got that fixed.
