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vga= setting #170

Closed kaihendry closed 11 years ago

kaihendry commented 11 years ago

vga=771 broke Plymouth on some screens, causing a broken progress bar

https://github.com/Webconverger/webc/commit/407e5830cfda1a751aa878c1cefcd73292b91d84

vga=current causes the Installer dialog not to show on Virtualbox. On my test PC it's fine really and the progress bar is not broken.

Without vga= setting the screen scarily flashes grey/white after the syslinux menu before launching into Plymouth http://youtu.be/5gg7tVRZr90

So what now? :/ Feeling far away from the silent boot. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Silent_boot

kaihendry commented 11 years ago

vesamenu.c32 seems to be the culprit here.

kaihendry commented 11 years ago

I've tested grub, which is fine.

I think the solution is to remove vga=, add MENU CLEAR and update syslinux from 4 to perhaps 6, to ensure the fg/bg grey/white flash does not happen anymore.

kaihendry commented 11 years ago

With syslinux6, there is no more annoying flash. https://github.com/Webconverger/Debian-Live-config/commit/04438ab694236ae0400218a66741416630c15228

Nonetheless there is an ugly message: http://s.natalian.org/2013-07-11/message.png Which is caused by arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c in the kernel source and is triggered by CONFIG_X86_VERBOSE_BOOTUP.

Which I wish dearly was not there.

kaihendry commented 11 years ago

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/plymouth/2013-July/000739.html