Bug#541273: grub-pc: vga= kernel command line option has no effect when grub runs in console mode

[Jameson Rollins]

I have been struggling with the same problem, and I can confirm that
adding "insmod vbe" to menuentry does fix the problem.  I tried adding
"insmod vbe" in the header, but for some reason that did not seem to
fix the issue.  It needed to be added to menuentry.

I propose that "insmod vbe" be added to all menu entries by default
(patch included).  I don't see why this would be a problem, and it is
surely the simplest solution.  If it's possible to add "insmod vbe" in
the header somehow, then that would obviously be easiest, but I
couldn't figure out how to get that to work.

I also agree that I've been finding the lack of grub2 documentation
pretty frustrating.  It's taken me longer than I would have liked to
get up to speed with the new system.  It looks like this is more of a
problem coming from upstream, but I worry a little about jumping into
the grub2 transition without much documentation in place.

Thanks much for maintaining, though, and hopefully we can smooth
things out.

jamie.
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