GRUB menu video mode
g
geleem at bellsouth.net
Sat Jun 28 19:30:20 UTC 2008
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 stuff' as in what is displayed during 'cmos boot rom'
start up.
box i am using, a 2 year old, does not have any setup for video in bios.
is there something that is now in newer cmos bios settings?
> If so, as
> a temporary fix, you can turn off the splash image, and run Grub in the
> text mode. Just comment out the splash= line in /boot/grub/grub.conf and
> you should be able to select the system you want to boot.
good point about splash. i had copied my 'menu.lst' and 'grub.conf' to my
desktop in this system to add to my last post, but, after spending 5 hrs of
ancestry searching, i forget to add 2 files to post.
'grub.conf' is from f8 install, 'menu.lst' is from conversion mandriva made
from 'lilo.conf' file, along with c&p from a different f8 install on this box.
some some editing was done, but i did not have 'splash=' in installed file.
note that 'menu.lst' does not have 'vga=794' in body, as i copied file before
i checked for any change. which there was not.
what would be nice if one could put a 'screen config preamble' in a file
that is going to be displayed. then again...
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# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=hd00 rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
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### fn= menu.lst
## v= .2008.0531.1756
## sys= fedora 8
#
#boot=/dev/sda
timeout 10
default 1
## fedora 8
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) sd0,0
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=sd00 \
acpi=force vga=794
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
##
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) sd2,5
root (hd2,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=sd25 \
acpi=force vga=794
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8-2.img
## mandriva 2k8.0
title mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3
kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \
BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \
resume=/dev/hdc2 acpi=force vga=794
initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img
#
title mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3 net off
kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \
BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \
resume=/dev/hdc2 acpi=force vga=794 init 2
initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img
#
title failsafe mandriva (2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv) hd2,3
kernel (hd2,0)/vmlinuz-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv \
BOOT_IMAGE=2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv_hdc3 root=/dev/hdc3 \
acpi=force failsafe vga=794
initrd (hd2,0)/initrd-2.6.22.9-desktop-1mdv.img
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tc,hago.
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