elementary OS

Grub2 menu is unreadable on a HiDPI (4k) screen

Bug #1537378 reported by rambolino
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Bug Description

I recently bought the Dell Precision 5510 with a HiDPI 4k (3840x2160) screen, and installed elementary OS 0.3.2 (Freya) on it. When booting up after the installation, grub2 chooses the native resolution of the screen which happens to be 3840x2160, and this makes the boot menu text completely unreadable.

The installer should configure Grub2 with a sane graphics mode based on screen size and resolution.

Tags: grub2 hidpi
Danielle Foré (danrabbit)
Changed in elementaryos:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sviatoslav Sydorenko (webknjaz) wrote :

Any solution so far?

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Zisu Andrei (matzipan) wrote :

Hello Sviatoslav,

Have you tried changing the GRUB resolution? https://askubuntu.com/questions/54067/how-do-i-safely-change-grub2-screen-resolution

An alternative might be to use rEFInd instead of GRUB. Have you tried that?

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Aidan Samuel (aidan-samuel) wrote :

I've had success rendering larger fonts, as described here:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/31672/can-grub-font-size-be-customised

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