Re: boot loader blank screen

From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 20:06:41 +0100
On 15/01/2021 14:51, Toomas Soome wrote:
> Could you please check latest current now?:)
>
> Thanks,
> Toomas
>
>> On 13. Jan 2021, at 20:13, Santiago Martinez <sm_at_codenetworks.net> wrote:
>>
>> Hi, +1 on this, i still have issue on a supermicro.
>>
>> Santi
>>
>>> On 1/8/21 8:11 PM, John Kennedy wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:19:12PM -0800, John Kennedy wrote:
>>>>   I saw your commit of 99870c70bac7 (loader: rewrite vidc_install_font),
>>>> 31c2bcad7e44 (loader: remove left over call to unsetenv()), and belatedly
>>>> babda0952f8355a89b3241d5e8943c7da0fa4f6b (hw.vga.textmode -> screen.textmode).
>>>>
>>>>   Didn't fix the blank screen, and I thought the hw.vga.textmode workaround
>>>> had broken until I read that commit fully (will try it next reboot).
>>>>
>>>>   At main-c255633-g3efe9b3e77c3 right now (also past your f1829643c476.
>>>   At main-c255756-g40903394bf48, still no love for my system yet.  FYI,
>>> screen.textmode=0 continued to work around the issue, as expected.
>>>
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>>
I found out my desktop pc that i updated today also has a blank screen.
In my case setting the following helps

screen.textmode=1
vbe_max_resolution=800x600

And thank you for that lovely boot screen and awesome font, very neat!

My release is main-c255921-gec2700e01532: Wed Jan 13 12:32:28 CET 2021

This is on a old intel core 2
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