Re: Missing menu display

[Andrey Borzenkov]

В Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:58:08 +0000
Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden> пишет:

> On 18/03/13 02:39, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > В Sun, 17 Mar 2013 17:02:28 +0000
> > Peter Hillier-Brook <address@hidden> пишет:
> >
> >> Could someone please advise how I might achieve a menu display on my new
> >> Siemens (sorry, Fujitsu) Lifebook. grub.cfg appears to be sound and I do
> >> hear the GRUB_INIT_TUNE, proving that my modified /etc/default/grub is
> >> being used by update-grub.
> >>
> >> Screen resolution is 1366x768, but I've set GRUB_GFXMODE to auto as I'm
> >> not convinced that 1366x768 would work. I should also mention that the
> >> system is using an EFI with which I'm not totally familiar and which I
> >> guess is at the root of the problem. Where might I find a handbook on
> >> EFI in relation to GRUB so that RTFM would have some meaning?
> >>
> >
> > Try for a start setting GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console to exclude gfxterm
> > from equation.
> Thanks for your support. The effect of your suggestion was:
> 
> error:no video mode activated
> 

Do you also have GRUB_TERMINAL set? It takes precedence. Try to set it
to "console" as well (or instead).

> This looks like progress, but I'm not sure of the direction. For 
> information, there is no video.lst in /boot/grub, but such a file does 
> appear in /boot/grub/x86_64-efi should that be relevant.
> 
> Contents of said file are (each on its own line) efi_gop; efi_uga; 
> video_bochs and video_cirrus. None of this looks relevant to the i915 
> Intel graphics used in this machine.
> 
> Any further diagnostic suggestions will be warmly welcomed.
> 
> Peter HB
> 
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