On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 02:21:08 Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing <de...@sharplabs.com> wrote:
> >
> > Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the colour of
> > the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using grub2 in F13? (By
> > "console" I mean the "framebuffer-based" console. X isn't running yet.)
> >
> > The back-story:
> >
> > Last evening I built and installed grub2 on my new F13 system. Turns
> > out that "vga=838" (i.e. 1600x1200x16) at the end of the kernel line
> > no longer works. In Grub1 it gave a nice 1600x1200 console outside
> > of X.
> >
> > Below, I've marked the two magic lines I added to the "menuentry" in
> > /boot/grub/grub.cfg to get the hi-res console. But the font is an
> > ugly hard-to-read green on black and I don't know how to make it
> > white on black like I had before.
> >
> > menuentry "F13, with Linux 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64" --class gnu-linux
> > --class gnu --class os {
> >
> > ## These two lines give a 1600x1200 console ##
> > set gfxmode=1600x1200x16
> > insmod vbe
> > ##############################################
> >
> > insmod ext2
> > set root='(hd1,2)'
> > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set
> > d5b13a6e-3c0c-432a-bcff-5f1706acea29
> > linux /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 root=LABEL=root ro
> > rd_LVM_LV=vg_F13/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> > SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset
> > initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.img
> > }
>
> I haven't used grub2 with Fedora in a while but I've never come across
> anything but white-on-black. It sounds like your video settings are
> screwed up. You might have to add "set gfxpayload=1600x1200x16" after
> "set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".
>
> I'm sure whether that really matters but "insmod vbe" might have to
> come before "set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".
>
> You also try to add "insmod gfxterm".
Thanks Tom.
Tried them all, and some other ideas. I either got no change or the big
(white) VGA font that.
Dean
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