Comment # 53 on bug 978973 from Roman Bysh

(In reply to Andrei Borzenkov from comment #52)
> I apologize for not coming back earlier. I tested booting in text mode and
> linux framebuffer driver gets loaded and linux switches to framebuffer
> console. So contrary to my assumption it is not necessary to have
> framebuffer active when linux kernel is loaded. 
> 
> Also every now and then I (and other users) get the same text mode splash
> even for regular boot, with gfxpayload and vide setup.
> 
> So it really sounds like the root cause is somewhere else.

I keep GFXMODE lower as it also controls the resolution of the grub2 menu.

It appears that the command "GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep" is broken. Can you
still access a lower version of grub2 from 2016?

We should install them and see of there is any difference. Do you have 1.99?