On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2020-12-26 at 18:28, Felix Miata wrote: > >> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto /etc/default/grub >> and switch from whichever mode is employed to the other, either plain >> text to graphical, or vice versa, then regenerate grub.cfg and try >> booting. > > That's a good suggestion, except I don't see any way to do that in the > /etc/default/grub I have. > > The closest thing I see is > > # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) > #GRUB_TERMINAL=console > > but that says it's for grub-pc only, i.e. the "legacy" version of grub, > whereas I'm running grub2.
No, grub-pc is not the legacy version of grub, it is grub2 for legacy computers without EFI. The version of grub2 for modern UEFI systems is grub-efi-amd64 which uses the framebuffer set up by the system's firmware (hence, no traditional text mode). Cheers, Sven