Console resolution after GRUB starts the boot ?

[John Radley]

I run FreeNAS 9.10 under Proxmox, and the console is at 640x480.
Althought I can get GRUB to open its console to 1024x768 by commenting out "GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console", the console reverts to 640x480.
"GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=keep" has no effect, which it would do on Ubuntu.

I assume because of "Feature #6921" (https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/6921) its no longer possible to use Graphic mode, and therefore there is no way to get the console to 1024x768?
Please advise

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find a solution for this?

 

[John Radley]

Hi, well sort of.....
I did try a new install using the OVMF (UEFI) bios (remember, I'm using FreeNAS via ProxMox)
That did switch the console driver to "vt" (sysctl kern.vty)
But none of the other things I tried ever got the console above 640x480, so I gave up with it.

Back with the SeeBIOS install, I could never get the console driver to switch to vt, and it stubbornly remains at "sc"
I wonder if the documentation is wrong, where it implies you can choose.

However, with "sc" I was able to get the size to change.

Pre-GRUB
Changing the GRUB configuration in /conf/base/etc/local/default/grub, by adding
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT=console
GRUB_GFXMODE=1024x768
and then rebuilding the grub.cfg with
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
This makes the GRUB window larger, but as soon as GRUB starts the boot, the window reverts back to 640x480.

Post-GRUB
I've not found a way to increase the window size while FreeNAS is booking.
However, editing the line to be "allscreens_flags=MODE_280" in "/conf/base/etc/defaults/rc.conf"
causes the window to become larger just as the FreeNAS console menu appears

I guess that is good enough, but I do find the whole of the FreeNAS booting sequence a bit of a puzzle!!