Frankly this entire thread is absurd, confusing the situation immensely. All that you need to know is that GRUB_GFXMODE in /etc/default/grub specifies the resolution for grub's menu, and that (unless GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD is set explicitly to something else) this same mode is passed on to the kernel.
So if GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480 is not getting you what you want, then you're not seeing a difference between grub legacy and grub2, you're seeing a difference between older *kernels* and newer *kernels* with technology like Kernel Mode Setting. Grub doesn't control what the linux kernel does for its ttys beyond the mode it hands off and the kernel parameters that it passes. Check with your distribution to see the best way to get a lower resolution (or larger fonts) for your ttys. All this discussion of writing a grub.cfg by hand and everything else is tangental to the actual problem that you're having, which is that the linux kernel and the way that distributions configure things has changed, not grub. -- Jordan Uggla (Jordan_U on irc.freenode.net) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel