boot loader blank screen

[John Kennedy]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 02:40:32PM -0800, Mark Millard wrote:
> ... screen.textmode="0" works, including with screen.font="8x16" . There
> is a difference, in that it displays some material at the very beginning
> that it was not displaying since the recent problems started (until now
> or so). This initial material displays in screen.textmode="1" style before
> the display switches to the screen.textmode="0" style of display for alter
> output. (I'm not complaining, just noting the visible sequence.)

  For my system, that change seems to be with the nvidia video driver gets
loaded.  Basically it looks like a screen clear and potential font change
depending on your setup.  Seems logical since something is probably getting
(re)initialized at that point.