Re: GRUB update problems

["Henry W. Peters" <hwpeters@jamadots.com>]

Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters:
>   
>> Then I did check the /etc/default/grub file, & this is what I got (I 
>> took out the '# at the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900' & changed the 
>> resolution... I tried doing an '#update-grub' both in the terminal
>> while 
>> booted & at startup in the recovery mode. Nothing seems to change... 
>> maybe it's the 'install_device not specified.' problem??
>>     
>
> Well if running update-grub shows an error about video.lst, then you
> must run grub-install first.
>
> Else check the generated /boot/grub/grub.cfg
> It should contain something like that:
>
> if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
>   set gfxmode=1440x900
>   insmod gfxterm
>   insmod vbe
>   if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
>     # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
>     # understand terminal_output
>     terminal gfxterm
>   fi
> fi
>
>   
Felix,

Thanks very much, I will try this.

Henry