Grub and Plymouth

[Bill Davidsen]

Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
> 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 expected behaviour press esc key while the black screen is 
> displayed
> and the grub menu gets displayed.
>> 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. 
>>   
> Also expected.
> KMS works only on ATI cards, Intel not far away but probably wont make 
> it in time for F10
> Nvidia some where in the distant future...
> 
Would I be a real whiner if I said there out to be a way to get it to use vesa 
mode, which may be slow but but at least *works*? I'd love to try some 
additional features, but I can't without a working display.

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