On Wed 23 Feb 2011 at 16:01:22 +0100, Rob van der Putten wrote: > As far as I can tell Grub2 tries to figure out largest resolution and > number of colours the hardware (video card) supports and then uses this > as its default.
The default GRUB menu display screen is definitely 640x480. Are you after controlling the screen resolution later in the boot process? > Is it OK to run update-grub or should I run grub-install? > Maybe update-grub doesn't install the right modules for a low resolution. > It does put a 'set gfxpayload=text' in /boot/grub/grub.cfg though. Run update-grub. > I could be on the wrong track; > The problems start after grub has run. Maybe the Linux boot process > overrides the resolution set by Grub. It can and it does. Your video card and the driver it uses have some bearing on this, as does /etc/default/console-setup. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110223152302.GA19069@desktop
