Grub not working

[Tony Pursell]

On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 22:58 -0400, dave boland wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 05 May 2011 10:06 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> > On 05/05/2011 09:49 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> > > If you still have problems, reinstall for the third time,
> > > this time making sure you install the grub to "sda"
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I send this separately as I do not want to distract you from the earlier 
> > post. I suspect you may still have a problem (blank screen) even with 
> > grub2 installed because your grub may not handle the higher resolution 
> > it detected. So from my first post, do this before you reinstall...
> > 
> > > Then uncomment the following line in /etc/default grub
> > > from
> > > #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
> > > to
> > > GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
> > >
> > > Then at terminal,
> > > sudo update-grub
> > 
> > Good luck - Goh Lip
> 
> Goh,
> 
> Well, I'm at Grub ver 1.99, and the resolution in the Grub file was
> changed.  However, the boot screen is still black.  I tried the trick
> where I hold the Shift key, then the Esc key, but neither produced any
> Grub display.

If you don't see the boot screen you probably need

GRUB_TERMINAL=console

in /etc/default/grub.  It might be there already but commented out with
#.

Also, don't forget to do

update-grub

anytime you change this file to give effect to the changes.


Tony