Bug#704493: closed by Colin Watson <cjwatson at debian.org> (Re: Bug#704493: GRUB_TERMINAL=console gets remembered?)

[Colin Watson]

On Tue, Apr 02, 2013 at 07:44:49AM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> B> Sorry, but I don't think it's necessary to clutter the configuration
> B> file to dispel everyone's possible misconceptions.  The info
> B> documentation linked from the top of that file makes it quite clear that
> B> this is a configuration file used in the process of generating grub.cfg,
> B> from which it follows naturally that regenerating grub.cfg is sufficient
> B> to apply any changes.
> 
> Well all I know is vanilla installations all have the fancy splash
> screen, but I'm stuck for life with the plain text screen due to
> something helpfully remembering the previous decisions :-(

I think it unlikely that that has anything to do with
GRUB_TERMINAL=console.  Perhaps you haven't installed the desktop-base
package, or perhaps something else; it might be possible to tell given
copies of /etc/default/grub and /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at debian.org]