Ming Hua wrote: > I have a 1280x1024 LCD screen, so when I boot from netinstall CD I added > the vga= option to get the proper resolution. I can't remember the > correct number though (It is 0x31A for 16bit color, 794 in decimal), so > the first time I typed the wrong "install vga=954" boot option. The d-i > was smart enought to know "vga=954" is wrong, and displayed an table of > possible choices and let me retry. I typed "031A" and d-i booted with > the correct screen resolution. That's not d-i displaying those choices, it's the kernel (arch/i386/boot/video.S). > After the install, though, I have "vga=954" in grub's configuration file > /boot/grub/menu.lst, and sure, the system refuse to boot and let me > correct the vga= option again. It turnes out that "vga=954" got written > to the kopt= option in /boot/grub/menu.lst, which seems to be inherited > from d-i. > > Maybe d-i can remember whatever option the user used the last time > (which should be the correct one), or, at least don't inherit any boot > options when the first one inputed by user is wrong (is there a way to > detect that)? d-i simply passes the kernel parameters along to the installed kernel. I don't understand why your installed kernel doesn't offer the same choices when passed the same parameter. -- see shy jo
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