Re: Missing menu display

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 18/03/13 02:39, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> В Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:02:28 +0000
> Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden> пишет:
>
> > Could someone please advise how I might achieve a menu display on my new
> > Siemens (sorry, Fujitsu) Lifebook. grub.cfg appears to be sound and I do
> > hear the GRUB_INIT_TUNE, proving that my modified /etc/default/grub is
> > being used by update-grub.
> >
> > Screen resolution is 1366x768, but I've set GRUB_GFXMODE to auto as I'm
> > not convinced that 1366x768 would work. I should also mention that the
> > system is using an EFI with which I'm not totally familiar and which I
> > guess is at the root of the problem. Where might I find a handbook on
> > EFI in relation to GRUB so that RTFM would have some meaning?
>
> Try for a start setting GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console to exclude gfxterm
> from equation.
Thanks for your support. The effect of your suggestion was:

error:no video mode activated

This looks like progress, but I'm not sure of the direction. For 
information, there is no video.lst in /boot/grub, but such a file does 
appear in /boot/grub/x86_64-efi should that be relevant.

Contents of said file are (each on its own line) efi_gop; efi_uga; 
video_bochs and video_cirrus. None of this looks relevant to the i915 
Intel graphics used in this machine.

Any further diagnostic suggestions will be warmly welcomed.

Peter HB