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sskeirik

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Registered: 2011-03-13

Posts: 20

GRUB display corruption

Hey everybody,

I have this really weird issue on my laptop (which I have never heard of before, nor could I find anything like via google). Occasionally, after a reboot, my GRUB boot menu screen will be totally messed up. Instead of showing the standard menu screen, it shows 4 tiny menus side-by-side overlayed on the preboot splash screen. Clearly, there is a resolution issue somewhere either with GRUB or the bios.

However, I cannot figure out how to reproduce this issue or what causes it. I run a dual-boot machine, and it doesn't matter whether I've rebooted from Windows or Arch; the display will still randomly glitch (about 50% of the time).

Since the boot screen is still usable (just very tiny), this isn't a critical problem. I was just wondering if anyone had heard of anything like this.

For reference, my laptop is an HP dm1z with an InsydeH20 bios revision F.1X (I can't remember the exact number).

I don't see how it could affect the issue, but I have included my menu.lst file here (with comments removed) for completeness:

timeout   10
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

# (0) Arch Linux 3.0
title  Arch Linux 3.0
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/root ro loglevel=2 nomodeset vga=0x03f0
initrd /initramfs-linux.img

# (1) Arch Linux 3.0
title  Arch Linux 3.0 Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-label/root ro nomodeset
initrd /initramfs-linux-fallback.img

# (2) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd0,2)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/disk/by-label/root ro nomodeset
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (3) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

Thanks for your help guys!