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, 10 Feb 2026 11:27:19 +0000 (11:27 +0000)
commite8c760b1309fb01c3a001c2e789a06cf64995a8f
tree2779777b3acf2cd51035cde8f8acd6e8b5d7293d
parent783df3e7e4d90a59608789c9e130213f4959c74a
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