On Saturday, 22 December 2018 2:04:46 AM AEDT Craig Sanders via luv-main wrote: > On Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 04:32:20PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Recently Grub has been changing to a high resolution mode. On some systems > > this is really slow, presumably due to having a crap BIOS. On kvm/qemu > > systems it doesn't work with -display curses. > > > > How do I get grub to stick to 80x25 text? > > On Debian, Ubuntu etc, edit /etc/default/grub and > > 1. un-comment the line: > > GRUB_TERMINAL=console
Thanks for that, I did that, ran diff on /boot/grub/grub.cfg and found that the following 2 lines were the relevant ones: terminal_input console terminal_output console Knowing that I was able to Google how to do this in Nixos, which is to put the following in /etc/nixos/configuration.nix and run "nixos-rebuild switch". boot.loader.grub.extraConfig = "terminal_input console ; terminal_output console"; > BTW, for kvm you might also want to enable a serial console. I usually > enable two serial consoles per VM, one to log the VM's boot up to a text > file on the host, the other for console access with 'virsh console' (this > is also how console access is provided in a javascript web by openstack and > similar virtualisation wrapper systems). Remember to actually configure > both grub and a getty (via inittab or systemd) to use the serial console as > well as adding the console "hardware" to the VM. Currently I run my kvm VMs under screen and just use screen -r to get the console. Virsh has some benefits, but so far it hasn't seemed worth the pain. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list luv-main@luv.asn.au https://lists.luv.asn.au/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/luv-main
