Booting - Only video in X. Blank bootloader and console.

ttye0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 109

When I boot my linux system (only changes I made were adding suspend2 support...but now I removed it) it used to show my BIOS splash screen, a secondary BIOS screen, then bootloader, then of course I would be left at a console.

PROBLEM: Now when I boot, my computer shows the BIOS splash screen, NO secondary BIOS screen, NO bootloader, NO console.

INFO: I do have user interaction. My BIOS setup screen is also without video for some reason too. When I reach my blank screened console I log in and startx and all of a sudden everything is normal looking. I believe all my VESA stuff is set as it should be. Any suggestions?

Januszzz · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:33 pm Post subject:

...hardware problem?

the way I would suggest is to make console screen going in the same mode which X have. You can do it if you have console framebuffer compiled in. You need to edit your grub.conf and provide a line with vga= or video= information. All is documented here:

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt

ttye0 · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 109

I installed console framebuffer support and set everything up. X and console are working. However, an important factor that I can't figure out is when I boot I still don't see my bootloader...the console is only visible when it switches to FB mode.

PROBLEM: Bootloader functional, but no bootloader interface visible. No video until FB mode is turned on.

Here is my lilo.conf: