[Novalug] grub2

Miguel González Castaños miguel_3_gonzalez@yahoo.es
Tue Mar 29 16:23:19 EDT 2011


On 29/03/2011 21:13, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
> On 29/03/2011 19:18, Miguel González Castaños wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>      I have bought a SATA to IDE adapter so now I can plug my SATA drive
>> in an IDE socket in my motherboard without using a PCI card for that.
>> I'm using Ubuntu Server 10.4.
>>
>>      However now I can't boot the HD, grub can't find the bootable
>> partition. The weird thing is that they look the same (sda partitions
>> when I boot with the Ubuntu live cd)
>>
>>      I've been googling and grub2 is really a mess. It's not easy to
>> figure out which file I have to edit to tell grub to boot from sda2.
>>
>>      Another alternative could be to reinstall without changing the
>> current installation. Is that possible?
> Nevermind, I got another SATA drive with Ubuntu installed (I did several
> tests) and It worked out of the box. Maybe the other install got corrupted.
>
> Anyway, I have forced Ubuntu to boot on text mode but when vmware server
> service starts, it changes the mode from text to GUI mode, changing the
> resolution to an unreadable resolution (very tiny letters).
>
> There is no way to run vmware service in text mode?
I found it myself:

http://dorthin.supersized.org/archives/24-Ubuntu-10.4-80x25-console-text-size.html

   1. *vim /etc/default/grub*
   2. Find this line
      *GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" quiet vga=769"*
   3. Change it to*
      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX=" quiet gfxpayload=text nomodeset"*
   4. save the file and exit vim, then run the following
      *update-grub2*
   5. reboot, bingo an 80x25 text console.


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