John's S7 report

[John]

Matt Zimmerman wrote:

>On Sat, Sep 11, 2004 at 06:16:45AM +0800, John wrote:
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>>Can't read the menu so can't stop it booting. IWhen ti boots, lots of 
>>dotty vertical lines, characters distorted almost beyond recognition. I 
>>don't know how to describe what I see.
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>Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and remove the splashimage directive, see if that
>helps.
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I thought I had done that, but in fact I hadn't. removing it does help.

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>>If it's till crook on S8 I'll try to get a digipic.
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>This is completely different since #7; it displays neither an image nor a
>menu by default, just a message with a timeout.
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I've got my sounder 8, will be applied before the day is out.