Setting text console dimensions via Grub2

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  You didn't say what distro you are running.
According to the things I've read about grub2 on google, configuring it
is distro specific.
I run Debian.  You don't edit any file in /boot/grub because Debian's update-grub 
will create the grub.cfg file over when it's run.
Instead, you edit /etc/default/grub and run update-grub as root.
The 2.6.32-4 kernel on Debian Sid had a problem where it didn't swithc console modes.
The problem was fixed with the update to 2.6.32-5.

          Kenny


On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 08:50:36PM +0100, Garry Turkington wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks to Janina and Jason for their help on this.  It's still
> defeating me however.
> 
> With grub2 the vga= parameter isn't supported anymore so simply
> setting vga=xyz isn't an option anymore.  Googling gives a bunch of
> info re setting gfxmode parameters and ensuring a few modules are
> loaded but I'm still ending up with a 80x25 console.
> 
> So let me ask the question another way.  If anyone is running a newer
> distro what did they need do to ensure a console with greater than a
> 80x25 layout?
> 
> Thanks,
> Garry
> 
> On 5/18/10, Jason White <jason at jasonjgw.net> wrote:
> > You can also use the fbset command, which under Debian can be found in
> > the fbset package.
> >
> > It is installed, but I haven't tried it, since the default resolution of
> > my framebuffer consoles does what I want: it maximizes the number of
> > characters on the display.
> >
> >
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