On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 02:53:49PM +0200, Ernest ter Kuile wrote: > > On 25 May, 2008, at 02:20, Alex Samad wrote: >> >> silly question did you run update-grub >> > That would not do anything usefull and may harm if you update the > menu.lst file by hand. update-grub is used to update that file, and will > overwrite anything added by hand. true but there is a section in menu.lst where you are meant to set vga option under defoptions, if you don't do a update-grub then it never makes it to the actual grub command lines. I might have missed where the op stated they had changed menu.lst on the grub recipe lines and not in the "proper" place note menu.lst has multiple section one of them is for manual static boot recipes and one of them is for automatic sections (updated by updated-grub), there is no need to hand craft your menu.lst in such a way that a update-grub should make it unbootable > > The vga kernel parameter is a bit illogical. vga=ask will give you a > list of possible modes. > This is done using two numbers, one is the selection number, the other > one is the mode as it is known to the VGA BIOS. The one you want is the > selection number, not the mode (0F07 was the mode) Then replace the "ask" > with that number. if you boot up into a fb mode you can run hwinfo framebuffer and it will list all the modes that are available to you (in hex), the ask option only gives you text modes (from memory) > > Ernest. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > -- jogger, n.: An odd sort of person with a thing for pain.
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