Changeset 9414365d for postlfs/filesystems/uefi-bootloaders/grub-setup.xml

Timestamp:

08/21/2023 03:12:37 AM (13 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128

Children:

0f76bd9, 2415b944

Parents:

b317cda

Message:

grub-setup: Refer to LFS for basic knowledge about grub.cfg, and...

explain some directives not mentioned by LFS.

File:

• postlfs/filesystems/uefi-bootloaders/grub-setup.xml (modified) (1 diff)

postlfs/filesystems/uefi-bootloaders/grub-setup.xml

@@ -455 +455 @@
 
     <para>
+      Refer to <ulink url='&lfs-root;/chapter10/grub.html'>the LFS
+      book</ulink> for the basic knowledge about the
+      <filename>grub.cfg</filename> file.
       <literal>(hd0,2)</literal>, <literal>sda2</literal>, and
       <literal>6.4.10-lfs-12.0</literal> must match your
       configuration.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The <command>insmod all_video</command> directive loads various
+      modules for video support.  It's needed to initialize the EFI
+      framebuffer for the kernel to print messages correctly before the
+      kernel GPU driver initialization.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      The <command>terminal_output gfxterm</command> directive changes
+      the display resolution of the GRUB menu to match your display device.
+      It will break the rendering if the <filename>unicode.pf2</filename>
+      font data file is not loaded, so it's guarded by a
+      <command>if</command> directive.
     </para>