[bug #45858] linux16 and initrd16 generated instead of linux and initrd

[Konstantin Svist]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?45858>

                 Summary: linux16 and initrd16 generated instead of linux and
initrd
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: fry_kun
            Submitted on: Tue 01 Sep 2015 08:09:20 PM GMT
                Category: Configuration
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Software Error
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: 2.02~beta1
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

When using x64 system, initrd16 and linux16 entries are generated
This is not a very big deal by itself (system still boots), but "non-quiet"
boot happens in very low-res text mode. After initrd, kernel loads up the
correct driver and uses full resolution, but until then it's all low-res. This
is even more apparent to users of nvidia driver -- they don't get a graphical
boot at all.


In the script /etc/grub.d/10_linux:
  case "$machine" in
    i?86|x86_64)
       sixteenbit="16"

Which means this applies to i686 architecture, too.




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