no splash screen

[Andrew Lenz]

splash screen not working.  not even a black and white menu.  just garbled text 
saying "the wrong mode has been passed".  after a few seconds boot continues 
and font is changed to something readable.


cel2 grub # emerge search grub
Searching...   
[ Results for search key : grub ]
[ Applications found : 4 ]
<...cut...> 
*  sys-boot/grub
      Latest version available: 0.94-r1
      Latest version installed: 0.94-r1
      Size of downloaded files: 941 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
      Description: GNU GRUB boot loader
      License:     GPL-2
<...cut...> 



============ grub.conf ============
default 0
timeout 30
splashimage=(hda0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Gentoo Linux 2.4.26-r6
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernel-2.4.26-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 
real_root=/dev/hda2 vga=788
initrd /initrd-2.4.26-gentoo-r6


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