GRUB boot menu squished w/ 2560x1440 background pic [upstream bug]

graysky · 2013-08-03 17:29:11

Recently set my grub.cfg to use a 2560x1440 background pic. The pic is displayed as it should be but the text for my boot options is squished or compressed taking up the first 10% or so of the monitor. Anyone else seen this? I can't reboot for a while now, to post a pic so you'll have to use your imangineation with my crude ASCII rendering of what I see:

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|                                                |
| xxxxxxx                                        |
| x     x                                        |
| x     x                                        |
| x  M  x                                        |
| x  E  x                                        |
| x  N  x                                        |
| x  U  x                                        |
| x     x                                        |
| x     x                                        |
| x     x                                        |
| xxxxxxx                                        |
|                                                |
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Last edited by graysky (2013-08-05 05:30:33)

Trilby · 2013-08-03 17:32:57

I don't use grub, but with syslinux you have to set the menu width (in characters in syslinux's case). If one sets a higher resolution without changing the width in coloumns, it would get smaller.

graysky · 2013-08-03 17:41:33

@T - I don't see an obvious setting in /etc/grub/default for menu width. One should never edit /boot/grub/grub.cfg directly, but should edit the aforementioned file + others config files and then generate it via a grub call. This could be an upstream bug I will admit.

Last edited by graysky (2013-08-03 17:41:53)

graysky · 2013-08-03 19:45:12

Looks like indeed an upstream bug.
http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39682

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#1 2013-08-03 17:29:11

GRUB boot menu squished w/ 2560x1440 background pic [upstream bug]

#2 2013-08-03 17:32:57

Re: GRUB boot menu squished w/ 2560x1440 background pic [upstream bug]

#3 2013-08-03 17:41:33

Re: GRUB boot menu squished w/ 2560x1440 background pic [upstream bug]

#4 2013-08-03 19:45:12

Re: GRUB boot menu squished w/ 2560x1440 background pic [upstream bug]

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