Re: blank display rather than menu

[adrian15]

dave wrote:
> I made a grub boot cd using the instructions in the gnu grub manual. 
> when it makes the iso it changes the file names to 8 letter names so 
> splash.xpm.gz becomes splash_x.gz argh. and menu.lst~ becomes menu0000.lst
It happens the same thing on my cd but it does not matter. Grub Cds work ok.
> When it boots it will boot to the default xp partition or if you hit a 
> key it will allow you to pick a menu item by arrow keys. But there is no 
> display. You see only an under bar cursor in the upper left of the 
> screen.
:)

> Is the screen blank because the splash image fails?
Yes. This is a bad design on splashimage implementation/patch on grub.
I've heard of it a lot of times. If the image is corrupt or is not
present... the screen becomes non-readable although the menu works at
the back.

> What video 
> mode is assumed on a vga system?
I do not know.
> grub ver with linspire 5.0.59 i believe.
> menu.lst =
>
>
>
> # this file is edited, the
> # system will stop modifying it.  To allow the system to resume
> # management of this file, remove it and run /sbin/jiffyboot
>
> default=3
> timeout=12
> color cyan/green magenta/green
> splashimage=splash.xpm.gz
Here's the problem.
Try with something like this:
splashimage=(hd1,1)/boot/splash.xpm.gz

Although if I were you I would put the image inside the cd and put
something like:
splashimage=(cd)/boot/splash.xpm.gz


If you need a rescue grub cd and you do not want to complicate yourself
try Super Grub Disk ( http://adrian15.raulete.net/grub/ )

adrian15