On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:07 AM, JB2 <yonaton@localnet.com> 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:
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' (or whatever image size you want to use - default is either 800x600 or 1024x768 depending on your screen size iirc). If that doesn't work, you'll have to go into sysconfig and set a theme for your bootsplash, then rerun mkinitrd. You may also have to add an entry for vga to your menu.lst. Example: root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAT10250821-part3 resume=/dev/sdb4 splash=silent showopts vga 0x31a I think you can use the format 'vga 1024x768' instead of 'vga 0x31a' but I'm not at my computer to test. Either way, the vga size fed to grub must be the same size as the boot splash image displayed when you run mkinitrd. Nkoli -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org