Adding custom console modes to VirtualBox Linux Guest
OK, reading manuals sometime is very tedious. But after some great experiences i have to say that it always a practice that worth. Following the little guide about setting up enriched graphics with GRUB 2, the right compendium is a little refresh about setting console modes on Linux. To discover which console modes are supported by our Linux Box all we have to do is to issue the command hwinfo --framebuffer, this will present us a list of supported modes, in hexadecimal values, that we can further pass to the kernel via the parameter vga=0x317 (HEX) directly, or the correspondent decimal value , in this case vga=791. I remember that

GRUB 2, graphical boot tips to set the desired VGA console mode.
Yes, everyone wants graphics, or better, the ability to customize things to suit different situations. I have always suggested programmers regarding interfaces and programs in genre to let the user be comfortable to set and change almost every aspect of program GUI, at least icons, fonts, backgrounds and often ii found some programs being too customizable, on the contrary. Let's take a look at GRUB 2, also called grub-pc by updates that the Debian distro suggests. GRUB 2 is the successor of the GRUB bootloader, commonly shipped within the majority Linux distributions. Basically i will cover only some graphical aspects that GRUB 2 seems to be strong w