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GRUB menu text and text on shutdown is very small

I’ve installed AlmaLinux 8.6 on a Dell XPS 15 7590.

The GRUB menu text and the text that appears when shutting down is very small I can barely read it. How can I fix this issue with the small text?

hwinfo --framebuffer displays nothing. Both vbeinfo and videoinfo in grub does not work and I get the error message 'can't find commmand'. I have tried installing 915resolution but when I run the command find / -name 915*, nothing is found except for the tarball itself and the extracted file/folder. Running 915resolution in the grub menu also results in the error 'can't find command'.

I have tried all sorts of resolution instead but nothing changes. This is the /etc/default/grub file:

GRUB_TIMEOUT=5 GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)" GRUB_DEFAULT=saved GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true GRUB_TERMINAL_INPUT="console" GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="gfxterm" GRUB_GFXMODE="1920x1080x32" GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD="keep" GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto resume=/dev/mapper/almalinux-swap rd.lvm.lv=almalinux/root rd.lvm.lv=almalinux/swap rhgb quiet" GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true" GRUB_ENABLE_BLSCFG=true 

I run the grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/almalinux/grub.cfg after and reboot but nothing changes.

I have tried changing fonts also as suggested in this article: Can GRUB font size be customised?. Nothing changes when I do the exact same thing in the article.

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