This is way too complicated for the average user. Also some distro's don't have menu.list - I have none for example with Arch Linux.
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? David On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> 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 <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<https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel> >
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