Hi,
Somehow in 11.0 the boot sequence was (until yesterday) shown in a nice high
res graphic mode with a dotted background.
Since yesterday this is in a too-large font in text mode which is quite
difficult to read (the only program I installed was ioquake3, but I wonder
if that might have anything to do with it).
I have checked grub’s menu.lst file and this has not changed from the last
working backup I made.
In both versions I have vga=0x31a as an option.
Any ideas of how to recover the graphic mode during boot?
I wrote:
> Since yesterday this is in a too-large font in text mode which is quite
> difficult to read (the only program I installed was ioquake3, but I wonder
> if that might have anything to do with it).
>
> I have checked grub’s menu.lst file and this has not changed from the last
> working backup I made.
>
> In both versions I have vga=0x31a as an option.
Could anybody believe this? I had a usb thumb drive connected and this was
causing the “undefined video mode” in grub.
I tried 3 or 4 extra modes that would be supported by my video card and all
were returned as “undefined video mode”.
Unplugged the drive and grub boots fine in graphic mode.
> I wrote:
>> Since yesterday this is in a too-large font in text mode which is quite
>> difficult to read (the only program I installed was ioquake3, but I wonder
>> if that might have anything to do with it).
>>
>> I have checked grub’s menu.lst file and this has not changed from the last
>> working backup I made.
>>
>> In both versions I have vga=0x31a as an option.
>
>
> Could anybody believe this? I had a usb thumb drive connected and this was
> causing the “undefined video mode” in grub.
>
> I tried 3 or 4 extra modes that would be supported by my video card and all
> were returned as “undefined video mode”.
>
> Unplugged the drive and grub boots fine in graphic mode.
>
> I have no idea of why this might be.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -G-
I actually should have thought of the usb drive first. I had a double boot
(suse/xp) machine that would freeze when loading xp but would boot perfect
in suse.
We called dell (the machine was a couple of days old) and they suggested
reinstall xp (i.e. they did not seem to have a clue).
The reinstallation also froze once before succeeding. At this stage I
thought that the mobo was faulty.
Finally the machine was up again and rebooting it would freeze half the way
through!! (one could see the faint Windos splash before it gets completely
bright).
Eventually I found that the culprit was a Targus usb extender box (with 4
connectors) that I was using to connect the printer (as the cable was not
long enough).
Suse had no problems booting with this box connected !
First question again: how to restore graphic mode during boot? I reinstalled GRUB, everything is fine except openSUSE boots in “verbose” mode. Here is content of GRUB:
