Re: Grub 2 EFI blind mode [Solved]

[Richard Collins]

On Sunday 06 Jan 2013 15:39:35 Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> В Sun, 06 Jan 2013 10:40:31 +0000

>

> Richard Collins <address@hidden> пишет:

> > > So that I understand what happens

> > >

> > > - you get GRUB2 screen. You see output and can use keyboard to navigate

> > >

> > > it. Right?

> >

> > Yes - the keyboard, mouse, network (and probably others) stopped working

> > when a 64bit kernel is running.

> >

> > > - GRUB2 screen itself is in text mode or in graphic mode?

> >

> > It's always been in text mode as far as I can remember

>

> Could you go to command line in GRUB2 (press 'c') and give output of

> command

>

> terminal_output

>

 

In it's current state with a visible bootup and the following settings:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=2

GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false

GRUB_DEFAULT=saved

#GRUB_GFXMODE=normal

#GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text

# To stop the frame buffer interfering with the NVIDIA driver

#GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"

GRUB_THEME=/boot/grub/splashimages/gnucheese.xpm.gz

GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=2

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=""

 

terminal_output gives:

Active: gfxterm

Available: console serial_* serial

 

> > > - when you select GRUB2 menu entry to launch Linux you get messages

> > >

> > > about wrong mode and "booting blind". No output from Linux kernel

> > > after that. Correct?

> >

> > Yes - some HDD light flashing but as it's on a SSD it never flashes for

> > very long anyway. After disabling the automatic crypt disk mounting it

> > started performing checks on the harddrives and eventually started X

>

> And when X is started you get output, correct?