Disable gfxpayload=keep by default
authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:57 +0000 (12:12 +0000)
committerJulian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>
Sun, 2 Nov 2025 11:08:11 +0000 (12:08 +0100)
commitcdedb99687b15d8dc4168abe4ac67be7d1e2e908
tree2463791910ca5dfa6ba15c5eecde874507f5cfe0
parent363b4ec82abfe7b2023cbd309f35f8a7f568e398
Disable gfxpayload=keep by default

Setting gfxpayload=keep has been known to cause efifb to be
inappropriately enabled.  In any case, with the current Linux kernel the
result of this option is that early kernelspace will be unable to print
anything to the console, so (for example) if boot fails and you end up
dumped to an initramfs prompt, you won't be able to see anything on the
screen.  As such it shouldn't be enabled by default in Debian, no matter
what kernel options are enabled.

gfxpayload=keep is a good idea but rather ahead of its time ...

Bug-Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/567245
Forwarded: no
Last-Update: 2013-12-25

Patch-Name: gfxpayload-keep-default.patch

Gbp-Pq: Name gfxpayload-keep-default.patch
util/grub.d/10_linux.in