Serious boot problem and no splash screen on new laptop

[Bruce Marshall]

On Friday 09 November 2007, Carsten Agger wrote:
> Nils Kassube wrote:
> >> So, everything works fine except I get no splash screen and the boot
> >> process doesn't start till I press CTRL+Alt+F1.
> >
> > Well, I don't know the reason for your trouble, but maybe you could
> > replace the "quiet splash" boot option with "vga=normal".
>
> Thanks!
>
> Now, that gives me a nice and rather fast text-based bootup, and that's
> excellent for starters, but ... why can't I have a splash screen? Other
> boot options that I lack?
>
> One thing: The splash screen works fine for the live CD
>
> thanks in advance for any help ...
> Carsten

Because the kernel's use of framebuffer is broken...  we all have problems 
with the boot process.  

You might try adding back the splash option to your kernel line but leave the 
vga option there.   Might work, might not.   Every machine seems to be 
different based on the video setup.