Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 09:41:07 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > > Why are you looking to switch from Lilo to GRUB now? If Lilo works,
> > > stick with it. If it is because you have EFI hardware, I'd skip GRUB
> > > and go straight to Gummiboot or systemd-boot.
> >
> > Well, I am trying to use the nvidia driver which conflicts with uvesafb
> > frame buffer, so it seems.  It used to work fine, but not it does not
> > work anymore and the only solutions I have found was a couple of grub
> > parameters which gives you a higher resolution and passes it on to
> > linux.  It would not be as good as the uvesafb, but at least it would be
> > better than 80x25.  I use the console a lot and only use gnome
> > sometimes, but I don't want to have to reboot into a different kernel
> > just to use gnome.
>
> Might it not be simpler to avoid the conflict by switching to the nouveau
> drivers rather than trying to learn a new bootloader just to pass a
> workround?

You can't use the nouveau drivers and the nvidia driver at the same
time, so this is the problem.  I did try that once, but at the time
which was quite a while ago, it didn't work.  

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