Grub and Plymouth

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson"]

Christopher David Desjardins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of questions regarding grub and plymouth and whether
> what I'm seeing may or may not be a bug. 
>
> First, when I boot my laptop I am usually greeted by a GRUB menu with a
> background image, this is not the case in F10.  Instead, my laptop goes
> automatically into booting from a blank screen.  Then I get a couple of
> messages and then plymouth starts.  Is this normal or should I get the
> usual GRUB menu with the count down allowing me to select kernels?
> Note: this laptop is only running F10 it's not a dual boot or anything
> strange.
>
>   
This is expected behaviour press esc key while the black screen is displayed
and the grub menu gets displayed.
> Second, when plymouth starts my screen is black except for a progress
> bar, which is doesn't progress smoothly and changes a few colours with
> the words Fedora 9.92 in the lower right hand corner.  However, the
> progress bar does eventual fill out though it still flickers with
> different colours.  I have an intel 945 video chip.  
>
>   
Also expected.
KMS works only on ATI cards, Intel not far away but probably wont make 
it in time for F10
Nvidia some where in the distant future...

JBG