All revisions of grub-0.9{6,7} fail to display the boot menu with a very simple config on my machine (with a Intel GM45 graphics chipset), however keyboard input works so booting is still possible, albeit blind. I'll attach my grub.conf in case that's helpful. I've resolved this by installing grub-1.98 (at the advice of folks in #grub on freenode), which works as expected. I'm filing this in case there's a known fix, or other's have the same issue as me and come here for help. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: int ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.35-gentoo-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_Dual_CPU_T3400_@_2.16GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:20:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11 dev-lang/python: 2.6.5-r2, 3.1.2-r3 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r7 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.34 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" ACCEPT_PROPERTIES="*" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ANDROID_SWT="/usr/share/swt-3.5/lib/" ANT_HOME="/usr/share/ant" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ARCH="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -ggdb -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CLEAN_DELAY="5" COLLISION_IGNORE="/lib/modules" COLORTERM="Terminal" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo" CVS_RSH="ssh" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -ggdb -pipe" DISPLAY=":0.0" DISTDIR="/g/distfiles" EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" ELIBC="glibc" EMERGE_WARNING_DELAY="10" EPREFIX="" EROOT="/" FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news nostrip parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync" FETCHCOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" FLTK_DOCDIR="/usr/share/doc/fltk-1.1.9-r1/html" GCC_SPECS="" GDK_USE_XFT="1" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.virginmedia.com http://distfiles.gentoo.org" HOME="/root" INFOPATH="/usr/share/info:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.20.1/info:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/info" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" JAVAC="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/bin/javac" JAVACC_HOME="/usr/share/javacc/" JAVA_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" JDK_HOME="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm" KERNEL="linux" LANG="en_GB.UTF-8" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LESS="-R -M --shift 5" LESSOPEN="|lesspipe.sh %s" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LOGNAME="root" MAIL="/var/mail/root" MAKEOPTS="-j3" MANPATH="/etc/java-config-2/current-system-vm/man:/usr/local/share/man:/usr/share/man:/usr/share/binutils-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/2.20.1/man:/usr/share/gcc-data/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.3/man:/etc/java-config/system-vm/man/:/usr/lib/php5/man/" NETBEANS="apisupport cnd groovy gsf harness ide identity j2ee java mobility nb php profiler soa visualweb webcommon websvccommon xml" OLDPWD="/home/valeo" OPENGL_PROFILE="xorg-x11" PAGER="/usr/bin/less" PATH="/usr/libexec/git-core:/usr/lib/ccache/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.3:/opt/chromium.org/chrome-linux:/root/bin" PKGDIR="/g/packages" PORTAGE_ARCHLIST="ppc x86-openbsd ppc-openbsd ppc64 x86-winnt x86-fbsd ppc-aix alpha arm x86-freebsd s390 amd64 arm-linux x86-macos x64-openbsd ia64-hpux hppa x86-netbsd amd64-linux ia64-linux x86 sparc-solaris x64-freebsd sparc64-solaris x86-linux x64-macos sparc m68k-mint ia64 mips ppc-macos x86-interix hppa-hpux amd64-fbsd x64-solaris mips-irix m68k sh x86-solaris sparc-fbsd" PORTAGE_BINHOST_CHUNKSIZE="3000" PORTAGE_BIN_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/bin" PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES="css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_DEBUG="0" PORTAGE_DEPCACHEDIR="/var/cache/edb/dep" PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES="log warn error" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILFROM="portage@localhost" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILSUBJECT="[portage] ebuild log for ${PACKAGE} on ${HOST}" PORTAGE_ELOG_MAILURI="root" PORTAGE_ELOG_SYSTEM="save_summary echo" PORTAGE_FETCH_CHECKSUM_TRY_MIRRORS="5" PORTAGE_FETCH_RESUME_MIN_SIZE="350K" PORTAGE_GID="250" PORTAGE_INST_GID="0" PORTAGE_INST_UID="0" PORTAGE_PYM_PATH="/usr/lib/portage/pym" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_RETRIES="3" PORTAGE_SYNC_STALE="30" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTAGE_VERBOSE="1" PORTAGE_WORKDIR_MODE="0700" PORTDIR="/g/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/g/overlays/valeo" PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage" PROFILE_ONLY_VARIABLES="ARCH ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" PWD="/root" PYTHONDOCS="/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.6.5/html/library" PYTHONDOCS_2_6="/usr/share/doc/python-docs-2.6.5/html/library" PYTHONDOCS_3_1="/usr/share/doc/python-docs-3.1.2/html/library" PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE="1" RESUMECOMMAND="/usr/bin/wget -c -t 5 -T 60 --passive-ftp -O "${DISTDIR}/${FILE}" "${URI}"" ROOT="/" ROOTPATH="/opt/bin:/usr/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-bin/4.4.3" RPMDIR="/usr/portage/rpm" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SHELL="/bin/bash" SHLVL="1" SSH_ASKPASS="/usr/bin/ssh-askpass-fullscreen" STY="7573.sys" SUDO_COMMAND="/usr/bin/screen -Sc sys /root/.screenrc.sys" SUDO_GID="100" SUDO_UID="10000" SUDO_USER="valeo" SYNC="rsync://rsync.uk.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" TERM="screen" USE="X aac acl acpi alsa apache2 avahi bash-completion berkdb bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cue cups cxx dbus device-mapper dri dvdr exif faac faad flac fontconfig fortran gdbm glitz gnome gpm gtk hal iconv ipv6 jpeg lame laptop libsamplerate lm_sensors mbox mmx mmxext modules mono mp3 mudflap ncurses networkmanager nls nptl nptlonly ntp offensive ogg opengl openmp pam pcre perl pic png podcast policykit pppd pulseaudio python readline reflection session spl sqlite sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification sysfs tcpd thunar truetype udev unicode vim-syntax vorbis webkit win32codecs x86 xorg xrandr zlib zsh-completion" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel intel8x0" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" USER="root" USERLAND="GNU" USERNAME="root" USE_EXPAND="ALSA_CARDS ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS APACHE2_MODULES APACHE2_MPMS CAMERAS CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS DVB_CARDS ELIBC FCDSL_CARDS FOO2ZJS_DEVICES FRITZCAPI_CARDS INPUT_DEVICES KERNEL LCD_DEVICES LINGUAS LIRC_DEVICES MISDN_CARDS NETBEANS_MODULES NGINX_MODULES_HTTP NGINX_MODULES_MAIL QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS QEMU_USER_TARGETS RUBY_TARGETS SANE_BACKENDS USERLAND VIDEO_CARDS XTABLES_ADDONS" USE_EXPAND_HIDDEN="CROSSCOMPILE_OPTS ELIBC KERNEL USERLAND" USE_ORDER="env:pkg:conf:defaults:pkginternal:env.d" VBOX_APP_HOME="/opt/VirtualBox" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" WINDOW="6" XAUTHORITY="/home/valeo/.Xauthority" XDG_CONFIG_DIRS="/etc/xdg" XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/usr/share/gdm" XSESSION="Xfce4" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" XZ_OPT="--memory=max" _="/usr/bin/nice" bash4="4.0.37(1)-release"
Created attachment 241165 [details] grub.conf
1. Does the non-graphical version work? 2. which revision of grub? You've just said 0.97. 3. Explicitly emerge =grub-0.97-r10, and make sure you follow the instructions to update the stage1 & stage2 using grub setup or grub-install.
