When I switch from grub-0.97-r5 to grub-0.97-r6 I can no longer see the grub boot menu. You can still select different kernels but you do not see what you are doing (point black screen). Furthermore during the first half of the bootup process I see strange artifacts all over the screen. (The bootup text is almost unreadeabe) After some time in the bootup process, the screen refreshes and the artifacts are gone. When I switch back to grub-0.97-r5, everything works as expected again. I use an ATI radeon HD2600 mobile with the ati driver. My grub.conf looks as follows: default 0 timeout 30 splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r6 (Genkernel) root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda7 doscsi initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r6 # Working genkernel title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r4 (Genkernel) root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r4 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/sda7 doscsi initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-2.6.25-gentoo-r4 # Own kernel #title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r4 (Own KernelA) #root (hd0,4) #kernel /kernel-2.6.25-ownA root=/dev/sda7 dosci # Own kernel #title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r4 (Own KernelC) #root (hd0,4) #kernel /kernel-2.6.25-ownC root=/dev/sda7 dosci # Own kernel title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r4 (Own KernelD) root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.25-ownD root=/dev/sda7 dosci # Own kernel title=Gentoo Linux 2.6.25-r4 (Own KernelE) root (hd0,4) kernel /kernel-2.6.25-ownE root=/dev/sda7 dosci #Boot Windows Vista which is on the #second partition of the first disk title=Windows Vista (32 bit) rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader (hd0,1)+1 makeactive Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install grub-0.97-r6 2.Reboot Actual Results: Cannot see the boot menu and get artifacts all over the screen Expected Results: See the boot menu and have a readeable output during the whole bootup process emerge --info Portage 2.1.4.4 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.1, glibc-2.8_p20080602-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.25-gentoo-r6 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T9300 @ 2.50GHz Timestamp of tree: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:36:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-shells/bash: 3.2_p33 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r13 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61-r2 sys-devel/automake: 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.26 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.23-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=core2 -O2 -pipe -ggdb" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms splitdebug strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/local-overlay /usr/portage/local/layman/gnash-cvs" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl acpi alsa amd64 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus debug dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo fam firefox fortran gdbm gif gpm gstreamer gtk hal iconv ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde kerberos ldap libnotify mad midi mikmod mmx mp3 mpeg mudflap multilib ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification svg tcpd tiff truetype unicode vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter 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 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="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonhd vesa fglrx" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Did you remember to redo the MBR as stated in the ewarn output? Make really sure that you did.
The first time I did not. Then, when I saw the artifacts I remembered the ewarn thing and did a "grub-install /dev/sda". However, that did not change anything. (Am I supposed to do more than just that?)
mount /boot ; emerge --config grub ; grub-install ...
Ah, thanks a lot! That did the trick. Apparently I was missing the "emerge --config grub" part. Thanks once more!
I got hit by the same problem. Please fix the message that "emerge grub" prints, until that is done many people will be hit by this problem, and the bug is not really fixed. /Jakob
