Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 21:05:11 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or > > at least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > > but /etc/default/grub

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: > You're supposed to use a video= parameter but I find the old school > vga=794 works for me. The thing you have to learn with using GRUB, or at > least when using grub-mkconfig, is that you don't edit grub.cfg > but /etc/default/grub when you want to add kernel parameters.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2017 15:20:25 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > What can you tell me about how to get an initial hi-res frame buffer > during boot and after when in console mode? KMS takes care of that with real hardware, but not so much with virtual hardware. > I know how to do it in grub:0. But I

[gentoo-user] Re: grub:2 first experience with it

2017-02-16 Thread Harry Putnam
Neil Bothwick writes: >> But no update-grub > > update-grub is an Ubuntuism, not part of standard GRUB. It's only a one > line shell script that runs > > grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg > > Even a large proportion of Ubuntu users would be able to manage without > it. yeah, I saw once I look