Comment 77 for bug 771905

I understand now what's happening here, and have a tentative solution, described in bug #864149. grub is starting the kernel with the console in graphics mode, but nothing in the initramfs ensures that the kernel is able to pick up access to this graphical framebuffer. Forcing vesafb to be loaded on boot as a fallback (which we already do when plymouth is not in the initramfs) will take care of this.