Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Fri Jun 27 13:13:17 UTC 2008
William Case wrote:
> My grub.conf contains the following line.
>
> splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>
> I altered my splashimage line slightly by putting a single space
> between 'splashimage=(hd1,4)' and '/grub/splash.xpm.gz'.
>
The (hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz is a complete path/file name. When
you add a space, you created an invalid file name. Think of the
difference between /var/log/messages and / var/log/messages.
> When I re-booted instead of the Fedora splash image, I got a bare bones
> colourless square with menu items -- which in itself is not surprising.
>
> But also, I no longer saw a double flash of that menu. It was a very
> quick load, straight to the menu window. I retried it with the space
> removed but the whole splashimage line commented out. Again I saw a
> very quickly, single copy, skeleton menu load.
>
> On both occasions there was not a hint of a Fedora splash image coming
> from an extra stage2.
>
> Before I make a fool of myself by reporting this as a bug, does this
> look like a bug to you? If so, why haven't others seen it.
>
Dumb question - is this a brief flash, like the video changing
modes, and not a longer pause between displays of the menu?
Mikkel
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