[bug #65503] No video output on some systems

<[email protected]> Fri, 3 Jan 2025 03:36:20 -0500 (EST)

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.boot-loaders.grub.bugs
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Follow-up Comment #6, bug #65503 (group grub):


[comment #4 comment #4:]
> I'm facing that issue as well on an Apple iMac 9.1.
> 
> In relation with goffioul's comment at
> https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?65503#comment2, I also noticed that
> with GRUB 2.12 the greetings 'Welcome to GRUB!' is not displayed anymore.

Yes, this is expected.

> However, I noticed that when adding "set debug=video" to 
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg the splash screen & boot menu are displayed properly 
> in both cases (system boot or installation medium boot). This is 
> surprising since I didn't change anything else in the configuration.

I suspect this has to do with the fact that enabling debug will print to the
screen before gfxterm is initialized. Does using echo as indicated in comment
#2
fix this issue for you?


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