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[70.123.218.92]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v8sm15955460oea.4.2013.02.28.17.48.46 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:48:47 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <513008FD.6030400@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:48:45 -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> <512FF2BB.3020100@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: 209.85.219.48 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 01:48:51 -0000 D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote: > This is way too complicated for the average user. Yes. I have to agree with that. My comments were directed at advanced users. > Also some distro's don't have menu.list - I have none for example with Arch > Linux. menu.lst was the configuration file for Grub Legacy. GRUB2 uses grub.cfg. > GRUB used to have a way of just adding at the grub menu the vga mode. It > was simple. > > Can't that be done with GRUB2? I believe that's a distro issue. They all do the grub configuration a little differently. You either do a custom configuration file or use the distro's method of building it. -- Bruce > On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> 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 >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> Grub-devel mailing list >> Grub-devel@gnu.org >> https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/**listinfo/grub-devel >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Grub-devel mailing list > Grub-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel >