The last update to grub didn't fix the bug for me, I still have a blank FB. vesafb still reports bogus information: vesafb: framebuffer at 0xe0000000, mapped to 0xffffc90010100000, using 768k, total 768k vesafb: mode is 1024x768x8, linelength=1024, pages=0 vesafb: scrolling: redraw vesafb: Pseudocolor: size=0:0:0:0, shift=0:0:0:0 Luca