Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 16:41:37
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43PkosWEJ9bWmfQE6OmaciNayda212bm2NEXBZgSdTnPQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels by Peter Humphrey
1 On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
2 > On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 21:28:55 I wrote:
3 >> On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 20:13:58 Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 >> > Uncomment this line in /etc/default/grub
5 >> >
6 >> > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
7 >>
8 >> Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg, so I need to find out
9 >> what that definition translates to. I'm searching now...
10 >
11 > It was easier than I expected (I hope). I just had to add two lines to
12 > grub.cfg:
13 > terminal_input console
14 > terminal_output console
15 >
16 > Mike G had suggested gfxterm for terminal_output, so I just changed it and
17 > added terminal_input. I'll test it next time I boot.
18 >
19 > Thanks again Neil.
20 >
21
22 Yeah, both of those settings default to "console", so you should be
23 able to just comment/remove them.
24
25 I only suggested gfxterm because you had a background image in your
26 original config for grub legacy. I'm not sure if that will work from
27 the VGA text console.