Felix Zielcke wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:07 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters:
I run Debian Lenny sid/squeeze, the updater this morning just
"updated"
my GRUB2 version... (not sure of the version).
normally it doestn't make sense to have stable (lenny), testing
(squeeze) and unstable (sid) in /etc/apt/sources.list
Usually you only use one of them.
I probably need to get the display resolution in GRUB to correspond to
my ACTUAL desktop resolution... I'm guessing; so, until GRUB works
out
what appears to me, to be a 'bug' (?), or I can know what to do to
remedy... perhaps there is a workaround someone can suggest?
I think you didn't set a device in the debconf prompt which asked for
one.
You need to run grub-install to update it. Else the graphical terminal
won't get anymore enabled by update-grub/grub-mkconfig.
And also check GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub, which is the
resolution for GRUB if the graphical terminal is enabled.
Not to seem ungrateful, but grubspeak is not too helpful at the moment,
but nonetheless, I did try several of your suggestions (perhaps not
correctly, because of maybe not understanding too well?)"
# grub-install
install_device not specified.
Usage: grub-install [OPTION] install_device
Install GRUB on your drive.
-h, --help print this message and exit
-v, --version print the version information and exit
--modules=MODULES pre-load specified modules MODULES
--root-directory=DIR install GRUB images under the directory DIR
instead of the root directory
--grub-setup=FILE use FILE as grub-setup
--grub-mkimage=FILE use FILE as grub-mkimage
--grub-mkdevicemap=FILE use FILE as grub-mkdevicemap
--grub-probe=FILE use FILE as grub-probe
--no-floppy do not probe any floppy drive
--recheck probe a device map even if it already exists
--force install even if problems are detected
--disk-module=MODULE disk module to use
INSTALL_DEVICE can be a GRUB device name or a system device filename.
grub-install copies GRUB images into the DIR/boot directory specified by
--root-directory, and uses grub-setup to install grub into the boot
sector.
Report bugs to <bug-g...@gnu.org>.
This was the message I got... I have no clue as to what "grub-install
[OPTION] install_device" means... this is to say, what is the option?
Then I did check the /etc/default/grub file, & this is what I got (I
took out the '# at the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900' & changed the
resolution... I tried doing an '#update-grub' both in the terminal while
booted & at startup in the recovery mode. Nothing seems to change...
maybe it's the 'install_device not specified.' problem??
# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=30
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="splash vga=795"
# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
#GRUB_TERMINAL=console
# The resolution used on graphical terminal
# note that you can use only modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
# you can see them in real GRUB with the command `vbeinfo'
GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900
# Uncomment if you don't want GRUB to pass "root=UUID=xxx" parameter to
Linux
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_UUID=true
# Uncomment to disable generation of recovery mode menu entries
#GRUB_DISABLE_LINUX_RECOVERY="true"
& one more note, I also had a problem with GRUB (or what ever...) when
I
hit the restart/shut down routine... it would sometimes only do a log
off, & then I would have to do a restart from the log on screen,
well...
it's back with this recent version of GRUB.
This has nothing to do with GRUB.
Any helpful help appreciated.
Henry
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