Grub and Plymouth

Adam Jackson ajax at redhat.com
Tue Oct 14 13:37:09 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-10-13 at 15:40 -0500, Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a couple of questions regarding grub and plymouth and whether
> what I'm seeing may or may not be a bug. 
> 
> First, when I boot my laptop I am usually greeted by a GRUB menu with a
> background image, this is not the case in F10.  Instead, my laptop goes
> automatically into booting from a blank screen.  Then I get a couple of
> messages and then plymouth starts.  Is this normal or should I get the
> usual GRUB menu with the count down allowing me to select kernels?
> Note: this laptop is only running F10 it's not a dual boot or anything
> strange.

This is normal.  If you want the grub menu, hold down shift (or any
other key really).

> Second, when plymouth starts my screen is black except for a progress
> bar, which is doesn't progress smoothly and changes a few colours with
> the words Fedora 9.92 in the lower right hand corner.  However, the
> progress bar does eventual fill out though it still flickers with
> different colours.  I have an intel 945 video chip.  

That's the text plugin, yes.  It's not going to progress "smoothly",
it's ascii art.  We were hoping KMS support would land for Intel chips
for F10 but it looks like that's not going to happen.

- ajax
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