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Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu?
Date 2016-10-19 13:10 +0200
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On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 11:37:08AM +0100, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 18 Oct 2016 at 10:22:24 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
> > On 10/18/2016 9:20 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
> > >On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 08:51:00AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > >>With GRUB2 on Jessie, how do I increase the menu's font _size_ .

[...]

> You presumably want to increase the size of what you *see* on the
> screen. Try
> 
>   GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480
> 
> in /etc/default/grub. 'update-grub' and reboot.

Brilliant. Brian, you were the only who could peer through the the XY
problem's fog [1]. Thanks for that [2].

[1] http://xyproblem.info/
[2] No, I'm not the original poster. I might well be wrong. But the
   evidence is so blazing that I can't hardly see anything else :-)
   Apologies to Richard if I'm wrong.

Regards
- -- t
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Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-18 16:00 +0200
  Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-18 16:30 +0200
    Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-18 17:30 +0200
      Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-18 18:30 +0200
      Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2016-10-18 18:40 +0200
      Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com> - 2016-10-18 21:40 +0200
      Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-19 12:40 +0200
        Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-19 13:10 +0200
          Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-19 16:30 +0200
            Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-10-19 16:50 +0200
              Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2016-10-19 17:00 +0200
            Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-19 18:20 +0200
              Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-19 19:50 +0200
                Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-19 21:20 +0200
            Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-19 18:40 +0200
              Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-19 20:00 +0200
                Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-19 20:30 +0200
                Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-19 20:50 +0200
  [MY solution] Re: Increase font size of GRUB menu? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-22 17:40 +0200

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