No GRUB Menu "Frequency Out of Range" on screen <SOLVED>

[DocTree]

No problem with older versions of Mint but after upgrade to 12 (Lisa), I get no menu. "Frequency out of range" bounces around my screen for a minute, then Mint loads. I occasionally need to use Win7 until _everything_ runs in VirtualBox. Thought I found a solution at viewtopic.php?f=90&t=74283&start=0 but found too many differences between 11 (Katya) and 12 (Lisa).

Can someone tell me where to find/set screen resolution with Grub2 and Mint 12? I spent several hours searching and still have no clue. Thanks.

[caribriz]

Hi DocTree,
Welcome to the forum

The old "StartUp-Manager" that you know from earlier versions of Mint has been dropped from LM12.

From Mint 12 "Tips and Tricks Guide" - section 3c
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=86813
recommends installing Grub Customizer instead.

Could this post on Ubuntu forums be a possible solution for you?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 75&page=85
post #849 reports a similar problem with the "out of range" message.
They edited /etc/default/grub - the line

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 #GRUB_GFXMODE=640x480

caribriz

[DocTree]

Thank You, Carabriz!

The ubuntuforum thread was no help; older version (but _WAS_ same problem). Grub Customizer from the Mint 12 "Tips and Tricks Guide" was the answer. Using the latest Grub Customizer, I just changed the menu screen resolution to 800x600 and all is working as intended. I suspect I'm going to like Grub Customizer when I start testing alpha and beta releases again.

Tree

[caribriz]

Glad you got it sorted out

caribriz