Screen blanks temporarily when booting

Baix · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Feb 2005 Posts: 77

Hey all,
Just coming back to Gentoo after going off to see what the other distros out there had to offer...not much :-P

. Anyway, after the Grub menu, the screen goes black for about 10-15 seconds before snapping back to life just in time to see the last few boot processes scroll up. The only thing on the screen during this time is a blinking underscore which periodically seems to stumble than get back to rhythm. Edit: Just read the sticky about Gentoo, tried removing the "vga=" entry but that didn't change a thing. If it matters I'm using an ATI Radeon X300 PCI Express graphics card.

Not really sure what else to say so if you need anything clarified just ask. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

F-0_ICE · l33t Joined: 06 Dec 2004 Posts: 679

sometime these errors can be caused by a mistype on the splashimage line of grub try chrooting back in and checking your grub .conf for errors

you want this line