I can confirm this on my GeForce 9300 netbook. With nouveau, the recovery menu shows as expected. With nvidia-current, the framebuffer is the empty purple left over from grub until the X driver kicks in.
I can confirm this on my GeForce 9300 netbook. With nouveau, the recovery menu shows as expected. With nvidia-current, the framebuffer is the empty purple left over from grub until the X driver kicks in.