[plug] grub

[Carl Gherardi]

Hey Jim (Curious is Jim Householder your real name?)

On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:05:50 +0800, Jim Householder
<nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Having just installed ubuntu, I find I am now using grub instead of lilo.
> 
> With lilo, vga=794 gave me 160x64 text mode.
> 
> How do I do it with grub?  'info grub' has not enlightened me.  I *really* don't like 80x25 text on my 19" monitor.

The vga= is just an argument to the kernel, much like '-l' to ls. In
grub.conf you just need to append it to the end of the kernel line.

Thanks

Carl G