F18 Splash screen is not shown

[Bill Davidsen]

Antonio M wrote:
> When I boot my updated F18, the usual splash screen is not shown, I see only the
> bar on the lowest part of the screen and some white lines ....boot process is
> completed fine: and here you will see part of my grub2 configuration file, but I
> don't see anything strange (I am running with intel i915 driver)
>
You might try adding the 'nomodeset' option to you kernel options, the reason 
you don't get graphic boot is that you are not in a graphics mode. You might 
also need to add the driver to the initrd, or activate it there. This is one of 
those "fiddle with it" problems, but adding the option is an easy thing, hit TAB 
during boot rather than editing the boot file, if it works then edit the file.

Animations in splash have gotten boring, I wish they would use something 
exciting like the FC10 boiling surface of the sun instead of the "throbbing 
meatball" as one student described it.

> menuentry 'Fedora (3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE)' --class fedora --class gnu-linux
> --class gnu --class os $menuentry_id_option
> 'gnulinux-simple-422dbeae-9692-4677-bf2b-8e5c0e1aed0b' {
>      load_video
>      set gfxpayload=keep
>      insmod gzio
>      insmod part_msdos
>      insmod ext2
>      set root='hd0,msdos3'
>      if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd0,msdos3
> --hint-efi=hd0,msdos3 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos3 --hint='hd0,msdos3'
> 5d6db129-001a-4159-bc3c-7c368eecedaa
>      else
>        search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 5d6db129-001a-4159-bc3c-7c368eecedaa
>      fi
>      echo 'Caricamento Linux 3.7.2-201.fc18.i686.PAE...'
>      linux    /vmlinuz-3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE
> root=/dev/mapper/vg_acer5720-lv_root ro rd.lvm.lv
> <http://rd.lvm.lv>=vg_acer5720/lv_root LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 rd.md <http://rd.md>=0
> rd.dm <http://rd.dm>=0 SYSFONT=True rd.luks=0 rd.lvm.lv
> <http://rd.lvm.lv>=vg_acer5720/lv_swap  KEYTABLE=it rhgb quiet
>      echo 'Caricamento ramdisk iniziale...'
>      initrd /initramfs-3.7.2-204.fc18.i686.PAE.img
> }
>
> --
> Antonio Montagnani
> Skype : amontag52
>
> Linux Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle
>
>


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