Disable gfxpayload=keep by default
authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:57 +0000 (12:12 +0000)
committerMiao Wang <shankerwangmiao@gmail.com>
Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:50:20 +0000 (13:50 +0000)
commit95b448962b171cbe96070e3e2d4c48f216017e23
tree0eb9ea19f6ef0e538a822c8a8a15da59e6e3ec08
parent8ce048933879b27a1f870addd1a687f7ed3abfe0
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