An unsightly booting sequence in Mageia 3.

[mihi]

I cam across and installed Mageia 3 some few weeks ago, via Mandriva and Pclinuxos and what an elegant distro it is. However that elegance is marred somewhat during the booting process when the screen goes black or partly black three times.

Is this normal or do I have a fault somewhere that can be easily corrected?

Thanks for any help.

[doktor5000]

Is this a completely fresh installation or an upgrade? Is it about the machine in your sig?
Which graphics driver is currently used? Please show the output of

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grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log

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cat /proc/cmdline

[doktor5000]

Fresh installation. Machine as in my sig.

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[maurice@localhost ~]$ grep -i driver /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    27.239]    X.Org Video Driver: 13.1
[    27.239]    X.Org XInput driver : 18.0
[    27.323] (II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/v4l_drv.so
[    27.323]    ABI class: X.Org Video Driver, version 13.1
[    30.867]    Module class: X.Org Video Driver
[    30.867] (II) v4l driver for Video4Linux
[    30.867] (II) NVIDIA dlloader X Driver  319.17  Thu Apr 25 20:43:54 PDT 2013
[    30.867] (II) NVIDIA Unified Driver for all Supported NVIDIA GPUs
[    32.668] (II) NVIDIA(0): [DRI2]   VDPAU driver: nvidia
[    32.785]    Module class: X.Org XInput Driver
[    32.785]    ABI class: X.Org XInput driver, version 18.0
[    32.785] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Power Button'
[    32.814] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Sleep Button'
[    32.814] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'Microsoft  Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 '
[    32.815] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.815] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.815] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.816] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.816] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.816] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.816] (II) No input driver specified, ignoring this device.
[    32.817] (II) Using input driver 'evdev' for 'AT Translated Set 2 keyboard'

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[maurice@localhost ~]$ cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=ef535687-2322-4833-85cd-39c7f9982c82 nokmsboot splash quiet vga=788

[ghmitch]

I have noted this exact same issue, but have never reported it since it doesn't actually affect operation of the system. It seems that the boot process is VERY sensitive to the underlying architecture. Any deviation from a "vanilla" installation produces strange results from the boot appearance. My maintenance system on my main hardware is a vanilla ext4 installation. The boot screen puts on a flawless performance. But when I was running Mageia 2 on 3ware RAID, the boot screen would blip on now and then, but it was mostly black screen. Now I am seeing the same thing with Mageia 3 on btrfs RAID 1 configuration. This is using a 2.2G Intel dual core Pentium based system. However on another system, an old Pentium 4 system, the boot screen was flawless under both conventional install and 3ware RAID install. It appears to me to be some sort of underlying timing issue with the boot process that is messing with the boot screen presentation. But for sure it is not new. I was seeing it all through Mageia 2 although I don't recall having seen the issue with Mageia 1.