Author: Alex Phillips Date: To: Alan Pope, Hampshire LUG Discussion List CC: Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Debian Woody
> > Grub is the very first menu that comes up. It is plain ASCII text and doesn't immediately set the video mode to anything
> particularly rude. This is before you see any kind of graphical interface at all. It happens just after the BIOS has
> finished checking everything.
>
> I have yet to see a machine that can't display the boot loader.
>
> Can you clarify what you did? Install from CD or just boot from it and run the live CD?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
Don't be so sure that Grubs first menu is plain ASCII text. I have
450+ machines at work, none of which will display the first menu,
unless you manually edit the grub.conf to make it use console mode.
