On 10/17/2011 2:17 AM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-10-16 at 21:21 +0100, Martin Airs wrote:
>> On Sunday 16 Oct 2011 08:06:32 David wrote:
>>>
>>> To what line did you add 'vga=0x305'?
>>>
>>> - --
>>>
>>> David
>>
>> I don't actually know the correct/official way to do this, but here's the first menu entry in my grub.cfg
>>
>> menuentry 'Linux, with Linux 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64' --class gnu-linux --class gnu --class os {
>> load_video
>> set gfxpayload=keep
>> insmod gzio
>> insmod part_msdos
>> insmod ext2
>> set root='(hd0,msdos1)'
>> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 0bc0fbf7-86a3-482c-abf3-ad29d0b39c6c
>> echo 'Loading Linux 3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 ...'
>> linux /vmlinuz-3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64 root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root ro quiet LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYBOARDTYPE=pc KEYTABLE=uk vga=0x305 nouveau.modeset=0 rdblacklist=nouveau
>> echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
>> initrd /initramfs-3.1.0-0.rc9.git0.0.fc16.x86_64.img
>> }
>>
>> sorry I'v just turned wordwrap off on this, not sure how it will show to everyone else
>
> To be entirely sure custom entries will always be present you should add
> them to /etc/default/grub and then re-run 'grub2-mkconfig
> -o /boot/grub/menu.lst' - this is the current "recommended procedure".
>
> The background is that when you install kernels, grub.cfg is updated via
> grubby, but if you want to manually re-generate the config, you use
> grub2-mkconfig . grubby simply works by taking a copy of the first entry
> in grub.cfg and adjusting it for the new kernel; grub2-mkconfig
> re-writes the config from scratch based on the kernels it finds and the
> other OSes it finds on your system. grub2-mkconfig reads 'extra'
> parameters from /etc/default/grub , while grubby will simply 'inherit'
> whichever others are currently present in entry #0 in grub.cfg .
>
> So if you add them to /etc/default/grub and re-run grub2-mkconfig then
> you'll know they're there on grub2-mkconfig runs, and because they're
> now present in all grub.cfg entries, you know grubby will 'inherit' them
> too.
>
> /etc/default/grub is not currently packaged as a config file so changes
> to it get overwritten when grub2 is updated; this has been reported as a
> bug and should be fixed soon.
Thank you for the information. On my system I get the blue-white
progress bar and I do not get the Plymouth 'filling circle' without the
vga= switch. Not that important. Just something I noticed that stopped
working.
--
David
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