GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread Herbert Carl Meyer
I am using a flat screen TV for a monitor that is VERY picky about video modes. I have bulled through installation with various hacks, and have X working, but now I cannot sync to the GRUB menu screen to make boot choices. I am looking for info on how to set video mode that GRUB uses for the menu,

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread g
Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: I am looking for info on how to set video mode that GRUB uses for the menu, either as a menu option or compiled in. have you tried 'vga=' in append line? -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@re

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread g
g wrote: have you tried 'vga=' in append line? oops. that should be 'vga=' in _kernel_ line. -- tc,hago. g . in a free world without fences, who needs gates. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread Konstantin Svist
g wrote: g wrote: have you tried 'vga=' in append line? oops. that should be 'vga=' in _kernel_ line. I think he wants the GRUB menu to appear in a different resolution. AFAIK, GRUB uses the BIOS resolution. Not sure if it's changeable. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com T

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
g wrote: Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: I am looking for info on how to set video mode that GRUB uses for the menu, either as a menu option or compiled in. have you tried 'vga=' in append line? I thought that only affected booting the kernel associated with the append line, and not the Grub me

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-27 Thread g
Konstantin Svist wrote: I think he wants the GRUB menu to appear in a different resolution. AFAIK, GRUB uses the BIOS resolution. Not sure if it's changeable. konstantin & mikkel, both correct, i should have read post 4 times instead of just 3. i am new to grub and there is very minimal 'man'

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-28 Thread g
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I thought that only affected booting the kernel associated with the > append line, and not the Grub menu. well, i now have more understanding about grub than i had gained in my last post, and maybe a little more than a few viewers of this thread, and a lot more than i

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-28 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: I am using a flat screen TV for a monitor that is VERY picky about video modes. I have bulled through installation with various hacks, and have X working, but now I cannot sync to the GRUB menu screen to make boot choices. I am looking for info on how to set video mode t

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-28 Thread g
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: One more thought - does the usual BIOS stuff show up properly? konstantin mentioned 'bios resolution' and your are saying 'bios stuff'. not sure what konstantin means by 'bios resolution', tho i would guess 'graphics chip startup default'. i take it you mean 'bios s

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-28 Thread Herbert Carl Meyer
Removing the splash= produces a pure text menu that the TV displays properly. Thank you, Mikkel. TV's, even modern flat screens, make lousy computer monitors. The basic purpose of this system is a DVR.  Jeremy K added the splash to grub to improve it, and as an advertising vector. Side effect was

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-28 Thread g
Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: As far as grub sucking, it was written for a purpose by somebody else. read what i wrote. i said grub stinks. that is why it is being rewritten. manual sucks and needs to be rewritten with more information so people can have a better understanding of what is supposed

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-29 Thread Richard England
Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: Removing the splash= produces a pure text menu that the TV displays properly. Thank you, Mikkel. TV's, even modern flat screens, make lousy computer monitors. The basic purpose of this system is a DVR.  Jeremy K added the splash to grub to improve it, and as an advertis

Re: GRUB menu video mode

2008-06-30 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 23:01 -0400, Herbert Carl Meyer wrote: > Removing the splash= produces a pure text menu that the TV displays > properly. Thank you, Mikkel. TV's, even modern flat screens, make lousy > computer monitors. The basic purpose of this system is a DVR. >  > Jeremy K added the spla