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Re: No GRUB with brand-new GPU



On 2020-12-26 18:44 -0500, The Wanderer wrote:

> On 2020-12-26 at 18:28, Felix Miata wrote:
>
>> I suggest a good place to start would be to goto /etc/default/grub
>> and switch from whichever mode is employed to the other, either plain
>> text to graphical, or vice versa, then regenerate grub.cfg and try
>> booting.
>
> That's a good suggestion, except I don't see any way to do that in the
> /etc/default/grub I have.
>
> The closest thing I see is
>
> # Uncomment to disable graphical terminal (grub-pc only)
> #GRUB_TERMINAL=console
>
> but that says it's for grub-pc only, i.e. the "legacy" version of grub,
> whereas I'm running grub2.

No, grub-pc is not the legacy version of grub, it is grub2 for legacy
computers without EFI.  The version of grub2 for modern UEFI systems is
grub-efi-amd64 which uses the framebuffer set up by the system's
firmware (hence, no traditional text mode).

Cheers,
       Sven


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