[ale] GRUB2 graphics

Tue May 17 22:24:26 EDT 2011

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 22:15 -0400, James Sumners wrote:
> Try looking in /etc/default/grub to see if there is a useful option.
> That's where I put the vga=792 kernel option on Debian 6 (deprecated,
> I know. But the new option causes the initrd image to not load). Then
> you would do 'update-grub2' to update the config. I also do a
> 'grub-install' after that, but I don't know if that is necessary.

vga=792 is a kernel option.  I've removed quiet and splash from the
kernel command line so I do see the boot fine.  The problem is that GRUB
is displaying the boot menu in some graphical mode that is not
compatible with my Acer LCD.

Chris