Source: grub2 Severity: minor Tags: patch The file 'debian/default/grub' in the GRUB 2 source code tree, which becomes '/etc/default/grub' when GRUB 2 is installed, has an incorrect comment line. Such a line says that the text-mode terminal only works in 'grub-pc'; I have tested the functionality with 'grub-efi-amd64' on my MacBook and it works perfectly, with an 80x25 character EFI console centered on my MacBook screen.
Though I am not sure, this functionality may also work with PowerPC, IBM POWER, and Sun SPARC machines. A patch is attached against the GRUB 2 source code tree, which will fix this problem. --- debian/default/grub 2016-11-25 12:02:14.125816399 -0800 +++ debian/default/grub 2016-11-25 12:03:14.685816399 -0800 @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ # the memory map information from GRUB (GNU Mach, kernel of FreeBSD ...) #GRUB_BADRAM="0x01234567,0xfefefefe,0x89abcdef,0xefefefef" -# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only) +# Uncomment to disable graphical terminal #GRUB_TERMINAL=console # The resolution used on graphical terminal -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=es_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
