Not displaying logo during startup/shutdown

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:23:03 -0500
Glenn Holmer <gholmer at ameritech.net> wrote:

> > in a terminal (or with ALT-F2) to modify the grub boot menu. In this
> > file replace every string "quiet splash" with the string
> > "vga=normal".
> 
> And how about if I want to have more lines on the consoles?  When I use 
> e.g. vga=0x317, it looks terrible, and alt-F2 &c. don't work.

If you are using Ubuntu 7.10 gutsy, there is a known frame buffer bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/129910

If that is the problem, note that it is fixed in hardy kernels now.

The work-around for gutsy is to edit a couple of files:

in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules      add

fbcon
vesafb

in

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-framebuffer      comment the vesafb line :

# blacklist vesafb

After the changes above, run

update-initramfs -u

The above steps are not needed in 8.04 hardy any more - the tty and
framebuffer issues seem to be fixed.

Peter







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Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>