Hello Jordan,

Thanks for your kind help.

Unfortunately I was in terrible pain due to illness and I'm blaming it for
overlooking a dependency or step I needed to follow when installing
grub-legacy.

It failed and I can no longer boot  my computer.  Since the program doesn't
seem to have set up correctly SuperGrub and the other Grub fixing CDs won't
work.  Also since I have no native driver for either eth0 or wifi on the
computer, I cannot just reinstall the system.  I need to but the hard drive
on another computer and install the kernel modules then pop it in my
computer, but this takes time and another computer. I hope I can borrow my
friend's computer where I write this.

I saved grub and grub-install --version from GRUB2 on my gmail account in
case I had problems putting Grub Legacy back on this computer.

I should have tried Andrey Borzenkov's suggeston about vga= line now
working.  Has it worked for the start, we would not have had such trouble.
 The command line community has been hacking up keep gfxpayload and other
parameters.   Hopefully the developers of GRUB will put in a line # To Keep
GRUB console resolution in virtual consoles uncomment the next line by
removing #.  Would solve the problem for us.

More later.

Thanks again to all.

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On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 3:14 AM, Jordan Uggla <jordan.ug...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 10:56 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n...@arrl.net> wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > That doesn't explain why if I go back to grub-legacy everything works.  I
>
> My guess is that you simply didn't have the same mode configured in
> grub legacy as you do in grub2. If you don't think that's the case
> then please give us some data to work with to determine what the
> difference actually is.
>
> Assuming that you're currently using grub2, and that you want a
> console and grub menu resolution of 1024x768 please do the following,
> in the order given:
>
> 1: Ensure that GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub is set to "1024x768",
> that GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD is either not set, set to "keep" or also set to
> "1024x768"
>
> 2: Run "grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg" to ensure that these
> settings have been applied to the grub.cfg in use.
>
> 3: Save the full contents of both /etc/default/grub and
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg so that you can include them in your reply email.
>
> 4: Save the output of "grub-install --version".
>
> 5: Reboot and confirm that your console resolution is not 1024x768.
>
> 6: Install grub legacy.
>
> 7: Configure grub legacy to hand off a mode of 1024x768.
>
> 8: Save the full contents of your /boot/grub/menu.lst .
>
> 9: Save the output of "grub-install --version" again.
>
> 10: Reboot and confirm that your console resolution *is* 1024x768.
>
> Then reply with the two saved outputs of "grub-install --version" and
> the full contents of /etc/default/grub, /boot/grub/grub.cfg, and
> /boot/grub/menu.lst .
>
> Please do not reply with any other unrelated discussion for now, I
> would like to stick to one thing at a time to prevent this thread from
> getting more chaotic.
>
> --
> Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net)
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