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Created attachment 324905 [details] Picture of the screen as GRUB is showing Description of problem: After installing Fedora 10, the GRUB menu shows as expected however the background isn't shown. The only place where it is visible is directly behind text characters (see attached image). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub-0.97-38.fc10.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot Actual results: Entire background is shown, not just under text. Expected results: Background image is shown Additional info: Pressing a key to enter the boot menu results in the background being shown correctly. Output of lspci | grep VGA: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600M GT (rev a1)
same on i368 grub-0.97-38.fc10.i386 Output of lspci | grep VGA: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8600 GT (rev a1)
I see this on all the computers I've upgraded to F10.
I have just had this occur on one of my computers. The last update with Kernel 2.6.27.12-170.2.5.fc10.i686 caused GRUB to fail (just a grub prompt when trying to boot). After a marathon 5 hours of trying to reinstall GRUB, I finally found the trick needed. When I rebooted, I had this problem. All the gory details on my odyssey are documented in bug #450143 comment #48. My other computers which have not needed GRUB to be reinstalled are as they should be.
Same here on rawhide.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 468865 ***
This bug is _not_ a duplicate. A such it must not be closed. The issue here is about grub only displaying the splash behind text. That Fedora 10 doesn't show the grub menu by default is okay, but it will when other OS are installed.
I agree, this is NOT the same as #468865. Up until GRUB failed to install on a new kernel, I had a splash image behind the first GRUB screen. That screen is the one with only the default boot selection shown. Please re-open this bug.
I just did another F10 upgrade from F9. After the initial upgrade from the DVD, the splash screen displayed on boot (not the menu, just the timeout to boot). I upgraded the kernel and then ran grub-install (to avoid the GRUB failure I've had on all other upgrades). I then rebooted and the splash screen only showed up behind the displayed characters, not the full screen. The only difference was a kernel upgrade and running grub-install.
This is not a duplicate. I'm experiencing this with FC11 preview (rawhide). Please reopen this bug.
It looks like Bug 499985 is a duplicate of this one, but includes a patch to fix it. Please get the patch incorporated before FC11 release, if possible.
After looking at the patch given in Bug 499985 I realized it already appears to be applied in grub-0.97-50.fc11. Since I was still seeing this problem, I noticed the patch added a new 'grub_verbose' flag. Once I added 'verbose=0' in my grub.conf I can now see the background image behind the timeout text! Here's my grub.conf: default=0 timeout=5 hiddenmenu splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz verbose=0 title Fedora (2.6.29.3-155.fc11.x86_64) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.3-155.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/vg_brownant/lv_root rhgb quiet selinux=0 vga=0x37D initrd /initrd-2.6.29.3-155.fc11.x86_64.img title Fedora (2.6.29.3-140.fc11.x86_64) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.3-140.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/vg_brownant/lv_root rhgb quiet selinux=0 vga=0x37D initrd /initrd-2.6.29.3-140.fc11.x86_64.img title Fedora (2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64) root (hd0,1) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64 ro root=/dev/vg_brownant/lv_root rhgb quiet selinux=0 vga=0x37D initrd /initrd-2.6.29.2-126.fc11.x86_64.img title WinXP rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
Created attachment 346004 [details] drop in replacement for the existing grub-keystatus.patch Currently adding verbose=0 to the /boot/grub.conf makes the splash screen work as expected for Fedora 10 and Rawhide.
*** Bug 499985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 479468 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle. Changing version to '11'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
*** Bug 507063 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I can confirm that I was seeing this still when I installed Fedora 11 on my Thinkpad T400. Using the workaround in Comment #11 fixed the issue.
I thought it was just me that had this given it's persisted for several releases.
I can confirm this after F-12 Beta installation, in F11 it worked for me well.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle. Changing version to '12'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
The patch from comment #12 has been incorporated into rawhide grub. It works for me when installed on F-12 (after a grub-install).
Should be fixed in grub-0.97-64.fc13 in rawhide.
It is. I tested this grub on F-12.
Still broken in RHEL-6 Beta for what it's worth.
Still broken in F13 .
Did you upgrade or reinstall? IIRC grub does not get reinstalled during upgrades, and that needs to happen for this bug to get fixed.
(In reply to comment #26) > Did you upgrade or reinstall? Upgrade > IIRC grub does not get reinstalled during > upgrades, and that needs to happen for this bug to get fixed. What I need to do ? grub-install or rpm -e grub && rpm -i grub ?
grub-install. Watch out, though, this is a command which might your system not bootable if something goes wrong.
Works for me in F13
(In reply to comment #28) > grub-install. Watch out, though, this is a command which might your system not > bootable if something goes wrong. works for me in F13 (also).