Tibor Sipos

Just an update I get black screen with the official binary release, too (so it is quite hard to debug :D ). Let's hope I can find out what does it cause - I am curious how RefindPlus can be configured for keeping background image, and how it works with deferred takeover.

Thank you! Yepp, the first part was clear, but I was not sure how it leaves the screen in graphics mode. And now I see why it is complicated (it would need to remove icons, shadows, text, etc, or quickly redraw to a defined image). Yesterday I gave a try to RefindPlus, because I had the feeling it will do that. :) I used the GitHub Actions method, which ran fine and produced REL efi files. I added the UEFI_APP---x64_RefindPlus_REL.efi file with efibootmgr as a separate entry, but it produced only...

QUite old topic, but... I am trying to create a more-or-less continuous boot experience with rEFInd and Plymouth. I had to fight with the buggy HP NTFS driver issue and other framebuffer issues, but it works now. Except that rEFInd clears the screen and sets it to black after I select a boot entry (Gentoo Linux). The kernel has deferred takeover, I use banner=xxxx for the image (which is displayed properly, however it flickers 3 times), textonly is not enabled, resolution is my maximum 1920x1080,...