Bug 62631

Summary: White screen on boot when vga=normal and quiet
Product: Platform Specific/Hardware Reporter: Ryan Finnie (ryan)
Component: i386Assignee: platform_i386
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: low CC: szg00000
Priority: P1    
Hardware: i386   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://launchpad.net/bugs/902733
Kernel Version: 3.12-rc4 Subsystem:
Regression: No Bisected commit-id:

Description Ryan Finnie 2013-10-06 21:21:02 UTC 
When the kernel is booted with vga=normal (or no vga=) and quiet on i386/x86-64, the screen goes white, and is replaced with white-on-black characters as they are written, eventually pushing the white screen away.  A screen clear resets the display to a black screen.

Any other combination (vga=792 and quiet, or vga=normal and no quiet, for example) produces the expected result (black screen from the beginning).

Reduced to defconfig and is occurring as of HEAD.  It's not a new problem though, occurring as far back as 3.0.
Comment 1 Szőgyényi Gábor 2016-11-09 19:37:50 UTC 
Please try this bug with latest kernel image.