Re: What is the "real GRUB"?

[Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com>]

Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 12:22:09AM -0700, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> > Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > Quote from /etc/default/grub:
> > >
> > > "...you can only use modes which your graphic card supports via VBE
> > > you can see them in real GRUB with the command vbeinfo."
> >
> >
> > Besides what Tom suggested if you have "hwinfo" installed you can
> > run as root 'hwinfo --framebuffer' and get the vga codes for your
> > video card and add it to the grub kernel line as 'vga=code', replace
> > code with the right code for you system.
> > --
> > Jimmy Johnson
> I have hwinfo installed but hwinfo --framebuffer gives no response at
> all.  hwinfo --short returns three screens of device information but
> nothing regarding framebuffer.


Try this as user: su -c 'hwinfo --framebuffer'
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Jimmy Johnson

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