Bug#519506: grub-pc: do not change video mode again on linux boot

[Bert Reuer]

Package: grub-pc
Version: 1.96+20090309-1
Severity: wishlist


It would be a nice feature if the video mode would be passed to the booting
kernel and so the resolution and background image stay there for the boot
messages.

As issued at the grub mailing list (
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2009-03/msg00121.html),
Robert Millan made a patch for this.


With kind regards,

Bert Reuer


-- Package-specific info:

*********************** BEGIN /proc/mounts
/dev/disk/by-uuid/9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e / ext3
rw,errors=remount-ro,data=ordered 0 0
*********************** END /proc/mounts

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/hda
*********************** END /boot/grub/device.map

*********************** BEGIN /boot/grub/grub.cfg
#
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig using templates
# from  and settings from /etc/default/grub
#

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/00_header ###
set default=0
set timeout=5
set root=(hd0,1)
search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
if loadfont /usr/share/grub/ascii.pf2 ; then
 set gfxmode=640x480
 insmod gfxterm
 insmod vbe
 if terminal_output gfxterm ; then true ; else
   # For backward compatibility with versions of terminal.mod that don't
   # understand terminal_output
   terminal gfxterm
 fi
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/00_header ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###
set root=(hd0,1)
search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
insmod png
if background_image /boot/grub/moreblue-orbit-grub.png ; then
 set color_normal=black/black
 set color_highlight=magenta/black
else
 set menu_color_normal=cyan/blue
 set menu_color_highlight=white/blue
fi
### END /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-686" {
       set root=(hd0,1)
       search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
       linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-686
root=UUID=9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e ro vga=794
       initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.28-1-686 (recovery mode)" {
       set root=(hd0,1)
       search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
       linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.28-1-686
root=UUID=9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e ro single vga=794
       initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.28-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686" {
       set root=(hd0,1)
       search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
       linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
root=UUID=9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e ro vga=794
       initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
menuentry "Debian GNU/Linux, linux 2.6.26-1-686 (recovery mode)" {
       set root=(hd0,1)
       search --fs-uuid --set 9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e
       linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
root=UUID=9a9bfe66-b8f9-4f89-afd3-72636774493e ro single vga=794
       initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
}
### END /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
# This file is an example on how to add custom entries
### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ###
*********************** END /boot/grub/grub.cfg

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages grub-pc depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]    1.5.26          Debian configuration management
sy
ii  grub-common              1.96+20090309-1 GRand Unified Bootloader,
version
ii  libc6                    2.9-4           GNU C Library: Shared libraries

grub-pc recommends no packages.

Versions of packages grub-pc suggests:
ii  desktop-base                  5.0.5      common files for the Debian
Deskto
pn  os-prober                     <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information excluded
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