Disable Grub Bootsplash

jmazzi · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 19

Hi,

When my system boots, its just a black screen with a penguin in the top right corner of the screen. My system boots all the way, but you can not read anything. I tried --no-bootsplash with genkernel, but it did not work.

Kernel Version: 2.6.3-gentoo-r2

grub.conf:

polle · Veteran Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 1498 Location: Belgium

If you have a seperate bootpartiton:
change this:
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

jmazzi · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 19

That doesnt work. FYI, im not talking about the screen that lists the available kernels to boot. Im talking about the screen after you select the kernel to boot on upto the console login prompt.

mdowney · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

you'll want to remove the line that says splash=silent from your kernel line to have it display all the boot messages, the line that says vga=0x317 is for framebuffer and it says what size to make the screen resolution.

jmazzi · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 19

mdowney · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject:

Try this for your kernel line:

michaelb · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 5:36 pm Post subject:

I suspect the problem is genkernel. I have just about nothing good to say about that tool. My advice is to compile your own, and leave out framebuffer support entirely, at least for now.
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jmazzi · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 19

Whats the best way to make your own initrd. I have made them by hand on a redhat machine, just not sure what tool to use for initrd on gentoo. mkinitrd is masked, so im kinda hesitant to use it.

jmazzi · n00b Joined: 06 Oct 2003 Posts: 19

I have made my own initrd, and built my kernel by hand and installed it. I still get the same results when i boot my 2.6.3 kernel. Anyone have some insight on this?

michaelb · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject:

Is there any particular reason you want to use an initrd? I appologize if I was unclear, what I meant was to create your own kernel, completely without framebuffer or bootspash support. You definitely still have those in there if you are seeing the penguin logo on bootup.
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carney1979 · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2004 5:28 pm Post subject: FYI about hdc=ide-scsi

When I compiled my kernel (2.6.3), I tred to selece the ide=scsi option and the help file said it's no longer needed with the 2.6 kernels.

I haven't actually tried this yet, but I intend to....

David