I've tested with 4.7-rc3. I first booted with this kernel without the "splash" to make sure it booted, then I added back the "splash" and re- ran update-grub, and booted that. That also worked. I verified by examining dmesg that the vt.handoff=7 WAS present on the kernel command line when it worked.
So it appears this issue is resolved in this newest kernel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1593261 Title: Using "splash" Linux boot option causes IPMI console view to blank Status in linux package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: I'm using a set of blade servers with SuperMicro BIOS and IPMI console viewing capabilities. I use the Ubuntu netboot options with a PXE server to install. I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 and 14.04 on these systems, and everything works great. However, when I install Ubuntu 16.04 (and this is true both if I upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 with do-release-upgrade AND when I install a fresh copy directly via the Ubuntu 16.04 netboot image via PXE), then the install works but when I reboot the IPMI console is completely blank: no cursor, no text, no typing shows anything. I can still SSH to the system (except of course the default netboot install doesn't include sshd for some bizarre reason so I had to play some tricks and rerun the install multiple times :-/). After a lot of experimentation I discovered that if I edit the /etc/default/grub file and remove the "splash" setting from GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT variable and re-run update-grub, then things worked fine and I was able to boot properly without losing access to the IPMI console. One more note: this is definitely a kernel issue because when I choose the older 14.04 kernel (3.13 or similar) from the boot menu on the system I upgraded from 14.04 to 16.04, with the "splash" setting still in the grub config and no other changes (so userspace is still all 16.04), I had no problems with the IPMI console viewer. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1593261/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
