Re: grub-mkconfig fails on every non i386-pc because of gfxterm/vbe

[Pavel Roskin]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 19:53 +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >
> > I'm sorry, I'm very busy these days.  I don't know what message you are
> > talking about, but I still have a lot of mail to read.
> >
> > I don't insist on changing the default, as long as GRUB behaves
> > correctly.  I have verified that setting GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
> > in /usr/local/etc/default/grub would disable gfxterm, and that should be
> > OK.
> Why not to change default to use console? I understand that distros
> may want background image or other beatiful stuff but IMO mainstream
> should remain simple and reliable and in this case using gfxterm at
> least on some console is less reliable than old and proven console
> approach. I'm ok with providing an option to choose gfxterm but I
> don't see why it would be default in mainstream

Done.  Sorry, I posted my reply before I found the message Felix was
referring to.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin