How to disable teardrop screen?

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 11:19:57 -0500,
  Lars Eighner <topper at larseighner.com> wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately even though I set BOOTUP to verbose, the teardrop screen comes
> up and wipes out the grub resolution and font and also wipes out any VGA
> setting done at boot.  Evidently the teardrop represents the trail of tears
> on the quest for an legible console font and resolution.

You can remove the rhgb from the kernel parameters to not get the splash
screen while booting Fedora. But that doesn't stop the change of graphics
mode.