The Wanderer composed on 2020-12-26 18:44 (UTC-0500):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto /etc/default/grub
>> and switch from whichever mode is employed to the other, either plain
>> text to graphical, or vice versa, then regenerate grub.cfg and try
>> booting.
> That's a good suggestion, except I don't see any way to do that in the
> /etc/default/grub I have.
> The closest thing I see is
> # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
> #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
> but that says it's for grub-pc only, i.e. the "legacy" version of grub,
> whereas I'm running grub2.
I know it says grub-pc only, but all mine are uncommented. And, all mine are on
UEFI installations. All my legacy BIOS installations boot from a custom
partition
with Grub Legacy, which is used to boot every installation on the disk. It may
be
that what it really means is: not arm*, not sparc, not mips, not ppc....
> A bit of Googling suggests that
> # 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=640x480
Mine all are GRUB_GFXMODE="auto", but I have no AMD anything newer than about 6
years old.
> also supports a value of 'text' rather than a FOOxBAR resolution, but I
> don't see that documented anywhere yet.
I think what you can do is create /etc/grub.d/05_do-text containing:
cat <<EOF
set textmode=true
terminal_output console
EOF
It may be sufficient with only the first of the two. Textmode can be made
optional
via hotkey:
cat <<EOF
hiddenentry 'Text mode' --hotkey 't' {
set textmode=true
terminal_output console
}
EOF
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