Qubes R4.2.0-rc3 ignores Qubes Grub theme on boot

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A fresh install of Qubes R4.2.0-rc3 (at least on a system with legacy BIOS) comes up with the standard Grub menu layout - White on a black background, without any title line, and no longer, as previous versions did, with a nice white menu on a blue background.

This is caused by a line GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console" in the file /etc/default/grub. Changing this line to the old value GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm" restores the old behavior and again uses the Grub theme provided by. Qubes.

Does anyone know why this was changed? @marmarek ???

By the way: the title line of the Grub menu, currently containing the English prompt Select Operating System can be easily changed to another language by editing this text in the file /boot/grub2/themes/qubes/theme.txt (currently in line 41).

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Thanks for the fast reply! :+1:

That seems plausible. As I am using legacy BIOS and never had such problems, I just ask myself if that’s again one of the wonders of UEFI?

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It also affected SeaBIOS systems (at least some of them, possibly depending on the configured VGA ROM).

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Maybe this is connected to the problem described here? If yes, it might hint to a solution.

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can you check also the iso can boot into rescue mode? i think since last time i try, i need to add inst.rescue to boot into rescue mmode

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That’s also fixed in R4.2.0-rc3:

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