Sometime during today a cooker update caused the following behavior change:
1) vga=788 no longer has a splashscreen and boots in character mode. It
had a valid splash this morning.
2) selecting "reboot" in a GNOME logout actually reboots rather than
going back to the DM (yay !!)
3) for some reason, (2) switches you to vc 1 (as it should), but all of
the shutdown messages are coming out in text mode on vc 7 (where DM was)
This is using MDKKDM and GNOME.