Hi all. I'm running Kubuntu (Dapper), which uses grub as its boot loader instead of lilo. I'm trying to get grub to do something that I've seen lilo do, but I can't figure out how.

Xandros uses lilo, and when my laptop was running Xandros, when you booted it the very first thing you saw, after the bios information displayed, was the lilo menu. The lilo menu was a high-resolution text display, because apparently the Xandros install was able to figure out that my monitor could support higher resolutions and configure lilo to support those higher resolutions from the get-go.

Kubuntu and grub, on the other hand, doesn't seem to do this: when grub first starts up all the text is displayed at a very basic vga resolution (400x300, or something like that), and only after it starts booting linux does the resolution change and a splash screen display.

So what I'm wondering is: is there a way to make grub recognize my laptop screens ability to display a higher resolution from the start, like lilo can?

There's no particular reason for this, it's purely an aesthetic concern.