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02.22.10

Blank screen fixed in grub-pc 1.98~20100128-1.2 Debian | (0)
The bug I've talked about in my last post, and described in Debian ticket #567245 has been fixed in grub-pc 1.98~20100128-1.2. From the changelog: grub2 (1.98~20100128-1.2) unstable; urgency=low * Non-maintainer upload. * Stop setting gfxpayload=keep (closes: #567245). -- Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org> Sun, 14 Feb 2010 20:37:51 +0100 There is also an interesting message in the discussion concerning the related Debian ticket #567393: Previously grub2 defaulted to start linux in text mode unless VESA graphics mode was explicitly requested. Recently we changed to defaulting to generic framebuffer when its support is enabled in linux. I found 3 problems: 1) At least some KMS modules expect graphics card to be ...

Tagged: Debian, grub-pc
02.10.10

Blank screen after upgrading to grub-pc 1.98~20100126-1 Debian | (0)
As I always shut down my laptop at work during the weekends, but never reboot it during the week, monday is the day I discover that the updates of the previous week have broken my Debian unstable system. This monday, it didn't go very far. After displaying the menu in grub-pc, and showing: Loading initial ramdisk ... the screen turns blank. But the computer still boots fine, and I was able to ssh into it in order to fix the problem. It turns out to be a problem that occurs when KMS is enabled. Some information is available from Debian bug reports #567245 and ...

Tagged: Debian, grub-pc