Bug#567239: Blank screen on KMS

[Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko]

Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 07.02.10 Choe, Hyun-ho (choehyunho at gmail.com) wrote:
>
> Dear Hyun-ho,
>
>   
>> Maybe the GRUB team already know the problem, and I hope this bug
>> fixed in the next release.  In the meanwhile, yes, you can change
>> /etc/grub.d/10_linux like following.
>>
>>     
> Many thanks for your input. I fixed my grub.cfg and
> /etc/grub.d/10_linux too. My box is booting now on VMWare even after
> updating grub to 1.98~20100128-1.1 . Running update-grub doesn't
> destroy my grub.cfg .
>
> Thanks again,
>   Hilmar
>   

The change which happened is that instead of announcing VBE as such
grub2 announces it as Generic Framebuffer, value previously used only on
EFI. When KMS is active kernel should ignore whatever framebuffer
bootloader has specified. So it looks like this change uncovered a bug
in Linux.

-- 
Regards
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko


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