Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > > 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 > > 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?
The device where you want to have GRUB in MBR/bootsector. I.e. /dev/sda or /dev/sdb etc. Choose the disk your BIOS boots from. Or if you don't know just install to all you have. > 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?? Well if running update-grub shows an error about video.lst, then you must run grub-install first. Else check the generated /boot/grub/grub.cfg It should contain something like that: if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then set gfxmode=1440x900 insmod gfxterm insmod vbe if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't # understand terminal_output terminal gfxterm fi fi -- Felix Zielcke Proud Debian Maintainer and GNU GRUB developer _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel