On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:41:07 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > Why are you looking to switch from Lilo to GRUB now? If Lilo works, > > stick with it. If it is because you have EFI hardware, I'd skip GRUB > > and go straight to Gummiboot or systemd-boot. > > Well, I am trying to use the nvidia driver which conflicts with uvesafb > frame buffer, so it seems. It used to work fine, but not it does not > work anymore and the only solutions I have found was a couple of grub > parameters which gives you a higher resolution and passes it on to > linux. It would not be as good as the uvesafb, but at least it would be > better than 80x25. I use the console a lot and only use gnome > sometimes, but I don't want to have to reboot into a different kernel > just to use gnome.
Might it not be simpler to avoid the conflict by switching to the nouveau drivers rather than trying to learn a new bootloader just to pass a workround? -- Neil Bothwick When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.
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