F11 Missing background image during rhgb

[pwalden]

I just upgraded a F9 to F11 using the network install. After the successful install message, I rebooted to find the boot stuck on a grub prompt. After determining that somehow grub had not been installed properly, I used the rescue mode to re-install grub. When I then rebooted, I saw a blank (black) screen during the rhgb sequence, with just the multicolor progress bar moving from left to right. As the bar reached the right side, the standard F11 login screen appeared.

The system is an old Omnibook 8000 laptop. Here is my grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 ro root=UUID=9b55f5fd-a5d3-4408-8db7-0c64b0f6a7fa rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586.img

[stoat]

Hello pwalden,

When Plymouth hit the streets with Fedora 10, many people (including me) could not see the fancy graphical display and instead saw the text-based version with the progress bars. The Fedora 10 Release Notes discussed the issue. It may help (or not)....

Originally Posted by Fedora 10 Release Notes

2.6.2. Plymouth
Plymouth is the graphical boot up system debuting with Fedora 10.

Adding rhgb on the grub command line directs Plymouth to load the appropriate plugin for your hardware.

The graphical boot splash screen that comes with Plymouth requires kernel mode setting drivers to work best. There are not kernel modesetting drivers available for all hardware yet. To see the graphical splash before the drivers are generally available, add vga=0x318 to the kernel grub command line. This uses vesafb, which does not necessarily give the native resolution for a flat panel, and may cause flickering or other weird interactions with X. Without kernel modesetting drivers or vga=0x318, Plymouth uses a text-based plugin that is plain but functional.

Currently, only Radeon R500 and higher users get kernel modesetting by default. There is work in progress to provide modesetting for R100 and R200. Additionally, Intel kernel modesetting drivers are in development, but not turned on by default.

The kernel modesetting drivers are still in development and buggy. If you end up with nothing but a black screen during boot up, or a screen with nothing but random noise on it, then adding nomodeset to the kernel boot prompt in grub disables modesetting.

Plymouth hides boot messages. To view boot messages, press the Esc key during boot, or view them in /var/log/boot.log after boot up. Alternatively, remove rhgb from the kernel command line and plymouth displays all boot messages. There is also a status icon on the login screen to view boot warnings.

[pwalden]

Thank you Stoat

Adding the vga=0x318 gave me some graphics, a fedora infinity icon that slowly filled in.

I have a ATI MACH_64 chip in this thing.

I remember the rhgb was broken in F9 for the longest time too.