On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 07:18:36PM -0400, Philip Bernstein wrote: > Hi, > > Thank you for the pointer to the web site. I tried setting vga=ask > and that worked. When I rebooted it asked me to choose from 6 different > settings (they were all 80 x 20 or 80 x 50 0F01or 80 x 60 0F07). I > chose 80 x 60 and it continued to boot up and I was able to see the "ok" > on the right hand side (which is what I wanted). But the story doesn't > end here. > After the system came up I edited the menu.lst file and added > "vga=0F07" to the boot line. Then I rebooted. Well during the system > shutting down, there was nothing but garbage on the screen (it did close > the desktop and the rest of the apps normally). It was just scrambled > nonsense. Then the system was coming back up and guess what, thats > right it ignored the "vga=0F07" and booted as it always does with the silly question did you run update-grub ? > right hand side off the screen???? But if I changed the line back to > "vga=ask" it works fine when I choose the 0F07 setting. > Sorry didn't mean to ramble here just trying to be thorogh with what > happened. Thank you for those web sites though. They have lots of good > info. > > Phil > > C M Reinehr wrote: >> Philip, >> [snip] > > -- > Philip Bernstein > ppberns@hvc.rr.com > > A few hours grace before the madness begins again. > -- "In this job you've got a lot on your plate on a regular basis; you don't have much time to sit around and wander, lonely, in the Oval Office, kind of asking different portraits, 'How do you think my standing will be?'" - George W. Bush 03/16/2005 Washington, DC
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