On 26 January 09, Teruel de Campo MD wrote:

On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 23:07 -0600, JB2 wrote:

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Hey gang,

After an kernel update with Yast (last year...took me a while to remember to ask about this!), when I rebooted my (10.3) system, instead of a nice green (or hope of hope, the penguins) screen, I get a bunch of words in a large(ish) font scrolling by real fast before the login screen finally pops up (it looks like the stuff one would later find in /var/log of somekind).

What happened? Why did a kernel update change my nice green screen to this suddenly? How do I get my screen back instead of this humongous ugliness of gibberish scrolling along? Is it something to do with menu.lst, which this is what mine looks like:

Do you have an usb HD attached and on during boot? If that is the case unplug or turn off the usb device and see if that makes a difference.

Just an old webcam. I unplugged it and rebooted, but it made no difference. It booted fine with the webcam plugged in *before* the kernel update though. Thing is, on the other SuSE numbers I've used (7.3, 8.2 or .3, 9.3 and now 10.3) this same exact thing happened whenever I did a kernel update through YaST. I'm just finally sick of it enough (and another thread (re: grub and the march of penguins) brought it back to my attention enough to remember to write about it) to want to figure out how to get things back to 'normal'. I tried some searches on yahoo/google, but nothing is turning up much except something to do with cpio. I could probably use the steps in the write-up, but it is for using another jpg, not whatever the stock picture was. I'd like to once, just once, after 9 years of SuSE use, be able to see the easter egg for winter boot-up and any others during boot-up that all I get to do is *read* about. -- "The tree of liberty must be occasionally watered with the blood of tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 26 January 09, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 1/26/2009 at 4:35 PM, JB2 wrote: Hey gang,

After an kernel update with Yast (last year...took me a while to remember to ask about this!), when I rebooted my (10.3) system, instead of a nice green (or hope of hope, the penguins) screen, I get a bunch of words in a large(ish) font scrolling by real fast before the login screen finally pops up (it looks like the stuff one would later find in /var/log of somekind).

What happened? Why did a kernel update change my nice green screen to this suddenly? How do I get my screen back instead of this humongous ugliness of gibberish scrolling along? Is it something to do with menu.lst, which this is what mine looks like:

I'd suggest you check your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Make sure you have a line like

gfxmenu (hd0,0)/message

in there... otherwise you get the 'text only' menu.

hd(0,0) might be wrong... Check in the section of Linux the root parameter... it should point to the same disk.

My menu.lst has that, thanks for the idea to check it though. One thing I did try during a reboot, was the 'caps lock' key trick...it brought up the penguins easter egg, but if I reboot and don't touch anything, it completely skips any spalsh screen and goes straight to the text stuff and then the green login screen. <sigh> -- Calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 27 January 09, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 1/27/2009 at 3:02 AM, JB2 wrote:

My menu.lst has that, thanks for the idea to check it though.

One thing I did try during a reboot, was the 'caps lock' key trick...it brought up the penguins easter egg, but if I reboot and don't touch anything, it completely skips any spalsh screen and goes straight to the text stuff and then the green login screen. <sigh>

So, you don't even get a 'text' based grub?

Yes, I still get that. It's *partially* fixed at the moment. I did the 'mkinitrd -s' thing that Nkoli told me to try. Now I get the splash screen and get to choose what I want to 'boot up', but once I hit 'enter', it goes straight back to the scrolling text and finally to the login screen. IIRR, the scrolling text was another screen with small graphics moving on it and *then* the login screen. I'd just like to get it all back to normal and maybe even find out why a kernel update with YaST screws it all up. John -- "Democracy cannot survive overpopulation... The more people there are the less one individual matters." -Isaac Asimov -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 26 January 09, Nkoli wrote:

On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:07 AM, JB2 wrote:

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Hey gang,

After an kernel update with Yast (last year...took me a while to remember to ask about this!), when I rebooted my (10.3) system, instead of a nice green (or hope of hope, the penguins) screen, I get a bunch of words in a large(ish) font scrolling by real fast before the login screen finally pops up (it looks like the stuff one would later find in /var/log of somekind).

What happened? Why did a kernel update change my nice green screen to this suddenly? How do I get my screen back instead of this humongous ugliness of gibberish scrolling along? Is it something to do with menu.lst, which this is what mine looks like:

Menu.lst may not be to blame. Either vga is not set, you don't have a boot splash associated with your initrd or your splash image size does not match the size of the image grub expects to load. I'm going to assume your kernel is built to use boot splash.

If you run 'mkinitrd' as root, at the end, it'll list the boot splash theme and size. If it doesn't list splash, you can do 'mkinitrd -s 1024x768'

That mkinitrd -s thing fixed it partially, thanks! Read what it did in Dominique's post. Still get the text scrolling after the bootsplash screen though. :( -- When seconds count, the cops are just minutes away. -John Steinbeck -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 27 January 09, Mike wrote:

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 19:12, JB2 wrote:

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Menu.lst may not be to blame. Either vga is not set, you don't have a boot splash associated with your initrd or your splash image size does not match the size of the image grub expects to load. I'm going to assume your kernel is built to use boot splash.

If you run 'mkinitrd' as root, at the end, it'll list the boot splash theme and size. If it doesn't list splash, you can do 'mkinitrd -s 1024x768'

That mkinitrd -s thing fixed it partially, thanks! Read what it did in Dominique's post. Still get the text scrolling after the bootsplash screen though. :(

Add splash=silent to the command line at the boot screen. Then it should stay until you log in. If you want it permanent, then add it to the command line in menu.lst

It's already there, unless you think I should add it to the other parts of menu.lst also. My menu.lst follows: # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Apr 14 21:07:42 CDT 2008 default 0 timeout 300 gfxmenu (hd1,0)/message ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAT10250821-part3 resume=/dev/sdb4 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe### title Failsafe -- openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAT10250821-part3 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3 initrd /initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: openSUSE 10.3 (/dev/sdb2)### title openSUSE 10.3 (/dev/sdb2) rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1 -- I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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On 1/28/2009 at 2:44 AM, JB2 wrote: It's already there, unless you think I should add it to the other parts of

menu.lst also. My menu.lst follows:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Apr 14 21:07:42 CDT 2008 default 0 timeout 300 gfxmenu (hd1,0)/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux### title openSUSE 10.3 - 2.6.22.17-0.1 root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.22.17-0.1-default root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAT10250821-part3 resume=/dev/sdb4 splash=silent showopts initrd /initrd-2.6.22.17-0.1-default

I actually miss

vga=0x314

on this parameter list... this would inform the kernel to load in a graphical mode and give it a decent resolution (0x314 will set it to 1024x768 at 16bit).

Simply add it behind showopts

Dominique

wikipedia has a good link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions There also used to be good kernel documentation in a file called vga-modes.txt if I recall correctly. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* David C. Rankin [02-07-09 01:07]:

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Dominique Leuenberger wrote:

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I actually miss

vga=0x314

on this parameter list... this would inform the kernel to load in a graphical mode and give it a decent resolution (0x314 will set it to 1024x768 at 16bit).

Simply add it behind showopts

wikipedia has a good link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS_Extensions

There also used to be good kernel documentation in a file called vga-modes.txt if I recall correctly.

http://wahoo.no-ip.org/~pat/vesafb.txt

Yep, That's it Patrick. On 11.0 it is: /usr/src/linux-2.6.25.20-0.1/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt If you have the kernel source installed, it will be in the /usr/src/{kernel}/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt You also just can't pick any mode, it has to be supported by your video card bios. That is another tidbit I can't remember the command for at the moment. I'll post it when I stumble across it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org