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### 12.1 Introduction

The ‘`gfxmenu`’ module provides a graphical menu interface for GRUB 2. It functions as an alternative to the menu interface provided by the ‘`normal`’ module, which uses the grub terminal interface to display a menu on a character-oriented terminal.

The graphical menu uses the GRUB video API, which is currently for the VESA BIOS extensions (VBE) 2.0+. This is supported on the i386-pc platform. However, the graphical menu itself does not depend on using VBE, so if another GRUB video driver were implemented, the ‘`gfxmenu`’ graphical menu would work on the new video driver as well.