On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 8:07 PM, Dean S. Messing <deanm@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Does anyone know the secret sauce that's needed to change the colour of
> the font in a high-res (1600x1200) console when using grub2 in F13? (By
> "console" I mean the "framebuffer-based" console. X isn't running yet.)
>
> The back-story:
>
> Last evening I built and installed grub2 on my new F13 system. Turns
> out that "vga=838" (i.e. 1600x1200x16) at the end of the kernel line
> no longer works. In Grub1 it gave a nice 1600x1200 console outside
> of X.
>
> Below, I've marked the two magic lines I added to the "menuentry" in
> /boot/grub/grub.cfg to get the hi-res console. But the font is an
> ugly hard-to-read green on black and I don't know how to make it
> white on black like I had before.
>
> menuentry "F13, with Linux 2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64" --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>
> ## These two lines give a 1600x1200 console ##
> set gfxmode=1600x1200x16
> insmod vbe
> ##############################################
>
> insmod ext2
> set root='(hd1,2)'
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set d5b13a6e-3c0c-432a-bcff-5f1706acea29
> linux /vmlinuz-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64 root=LABEL=root ro rd_LVM_LV=vg_F13/lv_root rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rdblacklist=nouveau nomodeset
> initrd /initramfs-2.6.34.7-56.fc13.x86_64.img
> }
I haven't used grub2 with Fedora in a while but I've never come across
anything but white-on-black. It sounds like your video settings are
screwed up. You might have to add "set gfxpayload=1600x1200x16" after
"set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".
I'm sure whether that really matters but "insmod vbe" might have to
come before "set gfxmode=1600x1200x16".
You also try to add "insmod gfxterm".
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