Comment 28 for bug 506717

I'd go for keeping this bug as getting something usable -- text mode in this case -- for vga16fb systems and file a separate bug for getting something visual working on that fb, especially since it seems a lot of work to me to port the code to a new colourmap.

By the way, I'm pasing the 'vga=' argument, but all that changed is that now Grub2 warns me that the argument is deprecated in favour of gfxpayload, which cannot be set in /etc/default/grub -- that is a bug report somewhere, not sure if also on LP though. I still don't have a proper boot splash.