On 2021-06-14, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2021 at 01:00:38AM -0000, Grant Edwards wrote
>> All my grub.cfg files looks like this:
>>
>> ========================================================================
>> timeout=10
>> root=hd0,1
>> default=0
>>
>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo' {
>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
>> }
>>
>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo' {
>> linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo root=/dev/sda1
>> }
>> ========================================================================
>
> Thanks. It's nice to have a working example. Are you booting via
> BIOS? I'm on a UEFI-only machine, and the generated grub.cfg has...
The example above is BIOS boot with a GPT labelled root disk.
Now that you've reminded me, I do have one UEFI system, and it does
contain a few extra global lines. It's also GPT labelled, and still
contains the original Lenovo Win10 installation -- I shrunk the Win10
partition and added two new partitions (Linux root, Linux
swap). Below is the grub.cfg for that machine:
IIRC, it worked fine without any of the gfx/font/video stuff, but like
you I wanted a nice big font.
Note that on this machine I just tell grub to search for the
filesystem with the label "root" instead of specifying it manually --
though it is still specified manually for the kernel argument. I don't
remember why I did that...
========================================================================
timeout=5
loadfont "DejavuSansMono24"
set gfxmode=auto
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod all_video
insmod gfxterm
terminal_output gfxterm
search --set=root --label rootfs
sleep 2
menuentry vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.10.27-gentoo root=/dev/nvme0n1p5
}
menuentry 'vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-5.4.97-gentoo root=/dev/nvme0n1p5
}
menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.175-gentoo' {
linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.175-gentoo root=/dev/nvme0n1p5
}
========================================================================
