Fedora/grub bug -- I think ?

[William Case]

Hi Mikkel;

On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 08:13 -0500, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> 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.
> 
I realize. But in desperation, one starts trying all sorts of things.
The point of my mentioning it, was that with a bare bones menu screen
there was no double image.

> > 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?

Not a dumb question. The flash lasts about 1/2 second.  Just long enough
for eyes to catch a Fedora blue screen, the word Fedora at the top of
the screen, and, the beginning of a menu box being written.  Then the
screen blanks for 2 - 3 seconds ( I have tried to count the times off)
and finally the splash image is fully redrawn.  When it loads for the
second time the Fedora name is at the bottom.  I mention that in support
of your idea it may be the video changing: maybe in the first instance
the splash image is not getting drawn properly.

Another thing, this started in F8.  I hadn't made the connection until
now and it just might be my frustration making invalid assumptions.
Keeping in mind I don't boot THAT often in order to always notice
exactly when the issue started.  But, two or three months ago, I
installed a new motherboard switching from an ATI video card to a Nvidia
on board video chip.

-- 
Regards Bill;
Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2
Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1