The floppy thing makes perfect sense.

Anyway, you can disable the splash by turning off splash image, and
background, and changing the console=graphics to console=text line in the
grub menu.lst file.

I always do that on all my installs, because I think the stupid happy face
boot (that's the code name) is a crapware that just gets in my way when I'm
trying to do Real Work (kernel debugging ,etc.)

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 6:41 PM, Kim Shrier <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sep 23, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Gabriele Bulfon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Garret,
> >
> > unfortunately there's a graphic splash hiding text after I press "b" on
> the modified entry with "-k".
> > So I just see the splash for one minute, then it gets away, showing the
> text OS banner preceded by "Loading kmdb".
> > Here the cursor still flashes, tried pressing shift+F1, nothing
> happens....
> >
> > I couldn't find any option on the grub edit to remove the graphical
> banner. Any idea?
> > In any case I tried pressing F1 anyway right after pressing b to boot,
> but find nothing more than the hanging banner...
> >
> > I'll try to leave the machine running as is, maybe it "wakes up" as it
> did other times, and goes to the kmdb prompt...
> >
> > I'll check tomorrow what's on the console, night time now here in Italy
> ;)
> >
> > All my thanks,
> > Gabriele
> 
> Just a shot in the dark but have you tried configuring a floppy device on
> your VM?
> 
> I used to have problems during device discovery if there wasn’t one
> configured.
> 
> Kim
> 



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