bug#24948: Illegible GRUB menu

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 01:54:02AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Leo,
> 
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> > On my Thinkpad x200s running GuixSD, the graphical GRUB menu is
> > scrambled and illegible. I've attached a photograph of the problem.
> [...]
> > This is not a recent regression; I've been working around it with the
> > diff below for a few months now.
> 
> A few months ago we updated our grub from 2.00 to 2.02beta3, in commit
> 4c7260011e219eb3ebf5da976ab107dbd5997829, dated June 16.  Was that
> roughly when this problem began?
> 
> If so, I suggest reverting that commit in your local tree, to see if
> downgrading to grub 2.00 fixes the problem.

Thanks for the advice. I'll try this in a few days when I have physical
access to that machine again.