At Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:03:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:20:43 -0700, Joshua D Doll wrote:
>
>> > Grub hangs if that's the case.
>
>> I've had exactly the same thing happen to me when I've had the path
>> wrong for the splashimage. You get a highly unreadable screen, but it
>> still "works".
>
> Did the wrong path point to something?
No. In grub.conf I had and still have
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
There used to be such a file. But the recent emerge removed it
and put the file in /usr/share/grub. So the splashimage target didn't
exist.
> When I got it wrong, grub refused to load the menu.lst file at
> all. Mind you, that was a couple of years ago. Maybe handles things
> differently now, I haven't dared find out!
Grub did load and if left alone would successfully load the default
target. However,
1. The menu grub normally displays (i.e. the grub.conf entries) was
absent or at least the screen was dark.
2. When the kernel starting booting, the screen was nearly unreadable
until the kernel set the console font, at which point ...
... poof--all was well.
allan
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