Hi Tim and others who may have been watching this thread. On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:22 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 00:35 -0400, William Case wrote: > > Perhaps I am being just a bit stubborn, but I wanted to learn how to > > diagnose the problem first, not just write something over top of it. > > Understanding what's going on is fine, and good. I don't discount the > importance of it. > > The solution for a duff MBR is to rewrite the MBR with what you want. > You don't uninstall an unwanted bootloader, you put another boot record > (that you want) over the top. > Messed around a bit more; but the final outcome was the double splashimages continue: 1) I ran "fixmbr" from my WindowsXP istallation/rescue disk. in case there was some ghost of something left over from BootMagic. 2) then, I ran from my Fedora installation/rescue disk on the rescue command line: grub > root (hd1,4) > setup (hd0) > quit Everything grub-like installed fine. So the answer must be grub is switching video modes. I wonder if I should report this as a Fedora bug against grub ? I seem to be the only one with this issue -- and it is not a major issue, just something I was hoping to clean up. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
