Bug 158061

Summary:	gfxmenu command in grub causes hang on bootup, on Sony Vaio PCG-C1MHP
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Richard Beal <Richard.Beal>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	Richard.Beal, suse-beta
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	hwinfo --vbe as requested

Description Richard Beal 2006-03-14 19:39:54 UTC

Boot goes OK until grub is just about to display the menu. At that point it displays a blue graphic screen. At that exact point it hangs showing the blank blue screen. This happens randomly, it works normally about 50% of the time.

Workaround: comment out the gfxmenu line in menu.lst by putting # at the start. System then works perfectly.

Diagnosis: There is a bug in the gfxmenu command. May be specific to Vaio with ATI Radeon LY and 1280*600 screen?

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2006-03-15 08:11:18 UTC

Torsten: please, check it.

Comment 2 Torsten Duwe 2006-03-15 10:50:00 UTC

We'll probably need some more info on your video hardware and BIOS.
Please attach the output of hwinfo --vbe.

Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2006-03-15 11:07:28 UTC

Sounds like the ATI bug.

Your best bet would be to pick up a new grub and bootsplash-theme-SuSE
from the Factory tree at www.opensuse.org.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114804 ***

Comment 4 Richard Beal 2006-03-16 19:48:52 UTC

Created attachment 73389 [details]
hwinfo --vbe as requested

I don't understand why it has been marked as resolved when I'm running an up to date system and it fails to start up half the time? I hope this info you asked for may help.

Comment 5 Christian Boltz 2006-03-16 23:11:11 UTC

Check the complete bug status - it's "resolved duplicate" (duplicate of bug 114004). You may want to check that report for more information.