Hello Bruce,
The "problem" with this is that grub.cfg says "Do Not Edit this File".
Why cannot grub2 have an easy way to change console resolution?
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.
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.
Any suggestions?
David
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote:
> D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>
>> Hello Peter and the rest of the group.
>>
>> I appreciate Peter's efforts to help.
>>
>> However, nothing so far works as needed.
>>
>> With the old grub users who needed larger size characters simply added a
>> vga= line to the boot code. It was simple.
>>
>> Now it seems to be very complex.
>>
>> In fact all the answers I can find on the various newsgroups no longer
>> work. Also there is no one answer, but many answers, and then there are
>> comments like "this no longer works".
>> font
>> Would someone make it so that users can make large fonts in the console?
>> There are those of us who are nearly blind but still like to see the
>> characters on the screen. We are comfortable using 640 x 480
>> configuration.
>>
>> Completely blind people of course have no need to change the font size. I
>> understand and have changed the font size in the grub menu, but unless I
>> can keep that resolution in the console, it is not what I want and need.
>>
>> If I could keep that character size in console while running the screen at
>> high resolution it would be perfect.
>>
>> However, the problem still remains: It is very difficult to do for a new
>> user who wishes to use a console only system as many blind users wish to.
>>
>> I am disappointed that I cannot find an answer to this question, if there
>> is a better place to ask, I would be most happy to know of it, and I will
>> ask there.
>>
>
> I don't know what others may say, but I just use a custom grub.cfg file.
> Avoid the scripts in /etc/grub.d. After all the only thing really needed
> in grub.cfg is:
>
> ### grub.cfg
> set default=0
> set timeout=5
>
> insmod ext2
> set root=(hd0,1)
>
> menuentry "entry1" {}
> menuentry "entry2" {}
>
> etc. Adjust values to need.
>
> Using this simple configuration, grub never changes the screen resolution.
> Any other changes are OS specific.
>
> -- Bruce
>
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