Re: Grub hangs if no key is pressed

[Jürgen Bausa]

Using

        GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080

I have the same behaviour as without the option: grub is slow and hangs after 
"loading initial ramdisk" if no key is pressed.

In the meantime I found out that grub sometimes (not often, maybe 1 of 10) 
hangs with 1280x1024. I am now using 1024x768, which seems to work reliable.

My system uses legacy mode, not uefi. I dont know if this is related.

Juergen

> Did you try with GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080 ?
>
> Am Donnerstag, 28. Dezember 2017, 20:06:41 CET schrieben Sie:
>> Some additional information and a workaround I found:
>> 
>> Grub is extremely slow. When I press a key, it takes more than 2 seconds
>> before I see the result on the screen. Another information that might be
>> important is that the Laptop has a high resolution (1920 x 1080) and grub
>> makes use of this.
>> 
>> The workaround I found is to either use a textual grub screen
>> 
>>      GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>>      GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
>> 
>> or to use a fixed and lower resolution like
>> 
>>      GRUB_GFXMODE=800x600
>> or
>>      GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768
>> 
>> Setting either a textual screen or the fixed resolution solves the problem:
>> grub is more responsive and starting the default kernel via timeout works.
>> 
>> As this is only a workaround and grub should work without it, I am still
>> interested in a solution.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Juergen
>> 
>> Am Mittwoch, 27. Dezember 2017, 22:22:16 CET schrieben Sie:
>> >> I have a Xiaomi Air 12 with deiban stretch (amd64) installed. Grub
>> >> (2.02~beta3-5) works in principle but I found out, that it hangs very
>> >> often, if no key is pressed (timeout for selecting the boot option).
>> >> 
>> >> In this case the default option is correctly selected. Then, the screen 
is
>> >> cleared, the name of the selected kernel is displayed and the message
>> >> "loading initial ram disk". Then the screen gets black and nothing 
happens
>> >> anymore. It seems that the system is never started (nothing is written 
to
>> >> the logs).
>> >> 
>> >> If I select the default boot option by pressing <Enter>> on the first 
grub
>> >> screen, everything works fine and the system boots up normally.
>> >> 
>> >> I have no idea how to debug this. Is there a debug option for grub that
>> >> enables some output on the screen?
>> >> 
>> >> Any other hints?
>> >> 
>> >> Regards,
>> >> 
>> >> Jürgen