From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJh3-0000Cr-5p for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:09 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJh1-0000B5-JC for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:07 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJgv-0008WI-VX for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:06 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=47486 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NSJgv-0008W0-LV for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:01 -0500 Received: from qsmtp7.america.net ([69.60.160.250]:44207) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NSJgv-0007uI-Co for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:24:01 -0500 Received: from [74.221.55.209] (helo=[192.168.1.64]) by qsmtp7.america.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1NSJgt-0003xI-4x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:23:59 -0500 Message-ID: <4B43D81C.5000009@jamadots.com> Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:23:56 -0500 From: "Henry W. Peters" User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090706) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: <321078.3571.qm@web88205.mail.re2.yahoo.com> <4B437FCD.4040609@jamadots.com> <1262715378.2635.8.camel@fz.local> <4B438BCA.60805@jamadots.com> <1262724652.2635.14.camel@fz.local> In-Reply-To: <1262724652.2635.14.camel@fz.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 Subject: Re: GRUB update problems X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:24:08 -0000 Felix Zielcke wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 05.01.2010, 13:58 -0500 schrieb Henry W. Peters: > >> Then I did check the /etc/default/grub file, & this is what I got (I >> took out the '# at the GRUB_GFXMODE=1440x900' & changed the >> resolution... I tried doing an '#update-grub' both in the terminal >> while >> booted & at startup in the recovery mode. Nothing seems to change... >> maybe it's the 'install_device not specified.' problem?? >> > > Well if running update-grub shows an error about video.lst, then you > must run grub-install first. > > Else check the generated /boot/grub/grub.cfg > It should contain something like that: > > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then > set gfxmode=1440x900 > insmod gfxterm > insmod vbe > if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else > # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't > # understand terminal_output > terminal gfxterm > fi > fi > > Felix, Thanks very much, I will try this. Henry