On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Mike Gilbert <flop...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:07 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." > <phajdan...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> On 9/21/13 8:42 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> GRUB2 will be stabilized soon (bug 455544). Here's a draft of a news >>> item to hopefully prevent any confusion. Please review. >> >> Great news! Thanks for working on this, and it basically works >> (chainloaded for now, see below) on my x86 system. >> >> Some general remarks: >> >> 1. When using chainloaded GRUB2, neither Linux kernel boot messages nor >> openrc boot messages would show up. Also, at shutdown openrc shutdown >> messages were also not visible. Everything is fine if I boot the kernel >> using GRUB legacy. This is inside VMWare Fusion. >> > > Hmm... I don't really have a clue here. I will try to reproduce it in qemu. >
I wasn't able to reproduce this in qemu. It is possible that GRUB's graphical terminal driver has some issues with VMWare. However, have a Gentoo box at work that runs GRUB2 on VMWare ESX, and I don't recall having any display issues on the console. But I'm also not chainloading it there.
