Re: Console Resolution with GRUB2

[Bruce Dubbs]

D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Hello Peter and the rest of the group.
>
> I appreciate Peter's efforts to help.
>
> However, nothing so far works as needed.
>
> With the old grub users who needed larger size characters simply added a
> vga= line to the boot code.  It was simple.
>
> Now it seems to be very complex.
>
> In fact all the answers I can find on the various newsgroups no longer
> work.  Also there is no one answer, but many answers, and then there are
> comments like "this no longer works".
> font
> Would someone make it so that users can make large fonts in the console?
> There are those of us who are nearly blind but still like to see the
> characters on the screen.  We are comfortable using 640 x 480 configuration.
>
> Completely blind people of course have no need to change the font size.  I
> understand and have changed the font size in the grub menu, but unless I
> can keep that resolution in the console, it is not what I want and need.
>
> If I could keep that character size in console while running the screen at
> high resolution it would be perfect.
>
> However, the problem still remains:  It is very difficult to do for a new
> user who wishes to use a console only system as many blind users wish to.
>
> I am disappointed that I cannot find an answer to this question, if there
> is a better place to ask, I would be most happy to know of it, and I will
> ask there.

I don't know what others may say, but I just use a custom grub.cfg file. 
 Avoid the scripts in /etc/grub.d.  After all the only thing really 
needed in grub.cfg is:

### grub.cfg
set default=0
set timeout=5

insmod ext2
set root=(hd0,1)

menuentry "entry1" {}
menuentry "entry2" {}

etc.  Adjust values to need.

Using this simple configuration, grub never changes the screen 
resolution.  Any other changes are OS specific.

  -- Bruce