On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 11:40:29PM +0000, Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:14:12 -0400
> Mike Hollis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Any pointers toward docs or comments are appreciated. Info grub was 
> > useless and there is no man grub. Googling brought forth lots of info,
> > but not specific to this. 
> > 
> This rings a bell with me. I was using the vesa framebuffer when I
> first started using grub 2. If I remember correctly, to get it to work
> I had to set a variety of options in grub.cfg, one of which was set
> gfxpayload. Google on "grub gfxpayload" and see if it helps. 
> I stopped needing to use this when I started using kernel mode setting.
> 
> Andy

I googled and found :

set gfxmode=1024x768
set gfxpayload=keep
insmod gfxterm
insmod vbe

These added to menuentry works perfectly.I probably didn't need
the /etc/default/grub entry.

Thanks for the tip.

--- Mike Hollis ---

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