Created attachment 613937 [details] photo of grub menu Description of problem: Initial graphical menu screen is totally corrupted (see photo). The hardware is Thinkpad T400, with Intel GPU and 1440x900 panel. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): grub2-2.0-0.38.beta6.fc17 Additional info: This bug apparently is NOT Fedora-specific. It wasn't fixed in other distribution, sadly: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/701111
Does it work when adding to /etc/default/grub something like GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768 and running grub2-install /dev/sda grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg ? If so: Please show the grub commandline output of set pager=1 vbeinfo
Created attachment 614108 [details] vbeinfo-001 It did work. I'm attaching photos of vbeinfo (I hope those are readable enough). BTW, Ubuntu bugreport contains this comment: "This is happening because the VBE BIOS advertises a 1440x900x32 mode (and even advertises 1440x900 as the best mode, though I don't think EDID is specific about the preferred depth) but fails to program it correctly. I don't know what the best solution to this is as yet."
Created attachment 614109 [details] vbeinfo-002
Created attachment 614110 [details] vbeinfo-003
(I thought the * in vbeinfo pointed at the default menu ... but apparently it points at the current mode.) Do 1400x900x16 work? Please also attach a dmesg from a system that has been booted with the default non-working grub mode.
Created attachment 616737 [details] dmesg from boot with GFXMODE=1440x900x16 1400x900x16 do not work
Created attachment 616738 [details] dmesg from boot wihout any specific GFXMODE
Problem persist with grub2-2.00-9.fc18.x86_64
Any progress on this?
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Problem still exists. grub2-2.00-25.fc20.x86_64
Oh well... the problem was fixed by upgrading BIOS to version 7UET94WW (3.24) 10/17/2012.