It's most probably the splashimage support (graphical background image) That I did not want to add to the debian package. It is trying to load the image from a specific location which does not contain the image and it is being corrupted.
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:08:05PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I cite myself from Nov-23-2004: > > Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; > and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come > up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.) > I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters > completely distorted; some vertical dotted lines are visible; the > characters like 'smear' all over the screen. > No, hold your breath; when X starts everything is fine and okay. > It's getting even stranger: when I boot from grub-floppy, the same > kernel; same commands, everything is fine; the characters are normally > visible while the lines of the boot screen flush by. > > As mentioned, all this started with the latest kernel-update (2.6.8) on > Sarge. Also remarkable, I run two almost identical machines, and it only > happened on one (DELL Inspiron 8100). > > > I didn't get an answer, but now a second machine breaks similarly: > > I can boot to OpenBSD on a multi-boot partition, OpenBSD starts, but has > the same mess of characters, with continuous overwrites to illegible; > regular vertical strips at pitches of about 8 over the whole screen. > > I stress: a very different machine (DELL D400); only common item: grub > on Debian testing. > To be noted: in the first case the identical same crap-up of the > characters happen with Debian Linux; here it is OpenBSD. Different > hardware, different memory. > > Identical in both cases: if I boot 'natively'; that is with grub-floppy > in the first case, everything is fine. In this second case I boot with > the OpenBSD-CD (36.iso) and enter 'boot wd0a:' and everything is fine as > well. > > The only common item - to repeat - is grub on Testing. > > I know, this sounds strange, but somehow something within grub seems to > mess the console invariably. > I can confirm that in both cases X works fine; and in both cases any > console (not the x-term, but after exiting the X-session), the console > will remain completely scrambled up until reboot. > > My excuses if this is not a grub-bug; but now everything else is > different; grub the only common denominator; and in both cases using > other boot tools boot fine. > > Am I really the only one ?? > > Uwe > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > Bug-grub@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub -- Jason Thomas Linux System Administrator http://www.sage-au.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub