F18 Splash screen is not shown

[antonio]

Bill Davidsen ha scritto / said the following    il giorno/on 18/01/2013 
17:12:
> 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
>>
>>
>
>
I had already tested the nomodeset option: no improvement and I get an 
ugly graphic when logged. I think that this is a regression as in F17 it 
was working great (kernel maybe the culprit)

-- 
Antonio M
Skype: amontag52

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