Package: grub-pc Version: 1.98~experimental.20100111.1-1 Severity: serious Hi,
Trying the experimental grub. Like Fabian reported in <http://bugs.debian.org/564844>, text does not show up in the graphical boot menu. But that is fine for now; I blindly hit enter, and grub boots the default item, which is Linux 2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764 (a recent snapshot of the linux-next tree). But the screen with some bullets, a rectangle, and no text does not go away. Did grub not notice I pressed enter? No, I hear the hard drive accessed in the same pattern as a normal boot. So I blindly log in and start X; X is fine. If I switch back to the text-mode console now, I get something similar to the boot menu screen, but with some snow mixed in. Back to X, fine. Rebooting Linux with kexec does nothing to help this. Odd. Version 1.98~experimental.20091229-1 is similar: though the boot menu looks like text mode, when Linux boots, it is garbled and I cannot make out anything until I start X. Version 1.98~20100110-1, on the other hand, seems to initialize the console correctly. Video card is ATI Technologies Inc Rage Mobility M3 AGP 2x [1002:4c46], which is to say, an r128. Bugscript output attached. Despite the glitches, this does look promising. :-) Hope that helps, Jonathan
*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts /dev/disk/by-uuid/3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 / ext4 rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered 0 0 *********************** END /proc/mounts *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/hda *********************** END /boot/grub/device.map *********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg # # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE # # It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates # from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub # ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ### if [ -s $prefix/grubenv ]; then load_env fi set default="0" if [ ${prev_saved_entry} ]; then set saved_entry=${prev_saved_entry} save_env saved_entry set prev_saved_entry= save_env prev_saved_entry set boot_once=true fi function savedefault { if [ -z ${boot_once} ]; then saved_entry=${chosen} save_env saved_entry fi } insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=640x480 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't # understand terminal_output terminal gfxterm fi insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 insmod gfxmenu set theme=($root)/boot/grub/debian-theme/theme.txt set menuviewer=gfxmenu fi set locale_dir=/boot/grub/locale set lang=en insmod gettext set timeout=5 ### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### set gfxpayload=keep insmod png loadfont /boot/grub/dejavu_sans_10.pf2 loadfont /boot/grub/dejavu_sans_12.pf2 loadfont /boot/grub/dejavu_sans_bold_14.pf2 set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue set menu_color_highlight=white/blue ### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro quiet echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e (recovery mode)" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro single echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-rc3-next-20100111-02660-g364764e } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro quiet echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 (recovery mode)" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro single echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.33-rc2-00304-g9ab1276 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro quiet echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 } menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, with Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (recovery mode)" --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os { insmod ext2 set root=(/dev/sda,1) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set 3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 echo Loading Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 ... linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-trunk-686 root=UUID=3b48df60-83e0-4fd2-a152-22b942ab5599 ro single echo Loading initial ramdisk ... initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-trunk-686 } ### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ### ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### *********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg