[NTLUG:Discuss] Boot weirdness

[Fred]

On Sat Oct 26, 2013 cjcox at acm.org wrote:

> There are are many evil things coming.  One is kms which assumes all video drivers support it. 
> The second is Plymouth such also makes a ton of misguided assumptions. You'll need to disable 
> modesetting on the kernel boot line ... If things are still giving you grief, or you just want to free up 
> some disk space in your boot partition... If you have one... Then package remove Plymouth. 
> Another thing is remove on a suse box is apper... Again, only if its giving you a headache.
>
> Fedora is planning to remove all driver support for cards that they think don't support kms. 
> That will leave some mistakes and remove graphical capabilities for a significant chunk of the 
> server market.

Ok, I can see that would be a problem but in this case I have graphics. KDE desktop displays just
fine, it is the text portion of the boot as well as the pseudo terminals (ctrl-alt-Fx) that don't display.
They work ok, I can bring one up, enter root <enter>, <password> <enter>, then shutdown -r now 
and the system reboots like it should. It just does not display on my monitor because it is in some
mode that my monitor doesn't recognize. The vga="xxx" boot parameter is wrong and I have to 
configure the bootloader to fix it but do not know how to do that with this install.

Fred