I’ve been using Ubuntu for a while now and something that bugged me a lot was the crappy screen resolution whenever I had to go and use my virtual terminals (TTY).

In previous versions of ubuntu which used grub 1, setting up the resolution for tty was done by simply using the vga=??? boot option. In grub 2 however, this is not so easy.

I remember when it first came out. I was somewhat exasperated by the fact that I had _just_ become comfortable f*cking with grub’s menu.lst and now I had to learn how to use grub 2 – which had some new convention for editing menu items let alone setting up the resolution.

Anyway, there’s really nothing to it. I had to do a lot of digging around and some experimentation, but in the end, as with all things linux it was “easy” when I finally found out how. » Read more: Setting TTY / Virtual Consoles resolution with Grub 2 in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx