Gutsy rc boot is a dark experience

[Ari Torhamo]

ke, 2007-10-17 kello 12:34 -0400, Bruce Marshall kirjoitti:
> On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Jonathan Corbet wrote:

> > Once grub passes control to the kernel, the screen goes black.  It stays
> > that way until the login screen shows up.  In between is a
> > discouragingly long time when the only sign of life is the disk activity
> > LED.  I've learned to be patient, knowing that the system will
> > eventually come back to me, but it sure would be nice to have my display
> > back during the boot process.

> 
> Yes, this is a problem.....
> 
> The workaround for the moment would be to add   vga=normal  on the kernel boot 
> line.
> 
> I would also remove for the moment the   "quiet splash" options on the kernel 
> line.  This should give you a text line boot where you can see what is 
> happening and then you can work from there to find the right options.
> 
> I think something is seriously farkled with the kernel's framebuffer usage as 
> the settings I used to use in feisty (vga=795) no longer work in  gutsy.
> 
> I'm still playing with the settings.


I'm experiencing this too. I tried to search for a bug report about the
problem, but couldn't find one. I thought that there propably is one and
I just missed it. Your message hints that the developers are aware of
the problem, but could you confirm this just to be sure. Otherwise I'll
file a bug report (after searching for one again).

Ari Torhamo