Disable gfxpayload=keep by default
authorColin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:12:57 +0000 (12:12 +0000)
committerMate Kukri <mate.kukri@canonical.com>
Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:04:12 +0000 (16:04 +0100)
commit884f36fc90c7ec49bd14b98b30090db8e7d43751
treed14eecef1488202ab874370862a30db558a14bf4
parentfc148210c2ed25d2e50971d39b62a8047148203c
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