From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1UBDbn-0005oB-PG for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:55 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57823) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBDbk-0005nk-HM for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:54 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBDbj-0003aq-DP for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:52 -0500 Received: from mail-oa0-f54.google.com ([209.85.219.54]:55639) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UBDbj-0003aH-7i for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:13:51 -0500 Received: by mail-oa0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n12so4715603oag.41 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:13:50 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=x-received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J2HrqoI08xmF1uNc49bx6CV5Nhafe9Vyc784B1TAm8s=; b=nIZpgAsYZSVwK+zEvD8IXO4Cvx3bi8AITM1KUr3mOlCjmJ67yQeVo+Dlu8+3sKSj3Q 6V1U5TpxMQA4fM7wwrF1Hdwdk3yrIqcm8L1r1goCwf3C5OHfSjZoZZrpFb0op3m6m8yZ llqzuWQs0VvhGaibrvUrk+FTMDML15pYGAwqCetoq4s+bE/8oAxX4syWW23pVcO+GDkf Ni9H/FTRqQYcG7IO8Gd4OeOOvfqIhvewfzG1K1ry5+q0oJTBGiflZ2zYCbPJllZ9rYLp wANnF+8Qe7woSu7SaZLkn8U2I/pfATW1W/Q4OF7EK2JFVYMZQ3UFDtXAu4Ujnb8W7AK4 XKKA== X-Received: by 10.60.30.33 with SMTP id p1mr7274555oeh.66.1362096830108; Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:13:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.0.75] (cpe-70-123-218-92.satx.res.rr.com. [70.123.218.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ad19sm15625342oec.0.2013.02.28.16.13.48 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:13:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <512FF2BB.3020100@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 18:13:47 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120628 Firefox/13.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.10.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB Subject: Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2 References: <7BA83AD3-3A95-48E9-A48D-32A2EA555D7C@colorremedies.com> <5110B696.6040705@gmail.com> <5112DCBA.2070003@catcity.dyndns.org> <51269D62.4050604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 209.85.219.54 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:13:54 -0000 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > Hello Bruce, > > The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File". The reason it says this is that it is embedded in the script grub-mkconfig. It overwrites the grub.cfg, but if you don't run that and only do manual edits, then it's not there. The problem is that many distros think they know more than the user (usually true, but not always) and always run grub-mkconfig every time the they update the kernel whether you want that or not. > Why cannot grub2 have an easy way to change console resolution? I believe that's hardware dependent. > When I open console programs, the display is tiny. Also console programs > with ncurses graphics are tiny. These would be full screen if I could make > console mode 640x480. That's probably because the kernel is configured to use a framebuffer by default. It's not a grub issue at that point. To disable the freamebuffer, see the advice in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer > Grub had an easy way to do this. I haven't tried Bruce's method because it > says not to edit the file. > > Also when I upgrade a kernel and regenerate the grub menu, the settings > will be overwritten. Keep a backup of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and restore it after upgrading the kernel. Then edit the file to add the new kernel. -- Bruce