s. keeling wrote: > Jeffrey Cao <[email protected]>: >> On 2010-01-22, Nima Azarbayjany <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I have recently installed Squeeze on my laptop and most things >>> seem to work fine right now. >>> >>> I used to add vga=xxx to the kernel parameters line to adjust the >>> console resolution but this is now deprecated as a message printed >>> at the startup says. What should be passed to the kernel instead >>> of, for example, vga=0x361? Let me add that I have upgraded the >>> kernel to 2.6.32 from sid. >>> >> For the new grub, edit the file /etc/default/grub, add the >> following line: >> >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="vga=xxx" >> >> And then run 'update-grub' to update /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Isn't it strange that we now need to `update-grub`, when having to run > "lilo" was such a hardship before? > > That does it. I'm going back to lilo. > > Grumble, mumble, wtf doesn't OpenBSD ever show up in the grub* boot > menu, grumble, mumble, ... Grr. > > Hi grumpy,
"update-grub" is only needed when configuration is manually edited, which seems fair to me as I don't see grub poling it's configuration scripts every few minutes to see if the volatile user made some change. We sure lost a bit of user-friendliness having several configuration to edit instead of just the "menu.lst" from grub-legacy, I guess that's the price to pay for flexibility, but judging by the number of messages about grub-legacy problems all over the Internet it's wasn't that much user-friendly anyway... Can't comment on OpenBSD, maybe a filesystem compatibility problem ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
