Misc problems with quantal

[Tom H]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Dale Amon <amon at vnl.com> wrote:
>
> Second, I am getting hit with a blinking screen even in
> virtual terminals on a quantal amd64 server build. Terminal
> is an ADI ProVista attached to a KVM.
>
> Eventually the screen seems to go to sleep and I cannot
> get it to ever come back.
>
> I have modified /etc/default/grub to get
>
>         # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
>         GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>
> which I assumed would shut off any graphical silliness,
> but it seems to have had no affect.

Try "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text".