Re: Console mode

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Tom Zych wrote:

> Ok, I had restored my old lilo.conf from backup, but I forgot to run
> lilo. So I did that first. It already had "vga=normal". Didn't help.
>
> I changed it to "vga=ask" and tried that. Mode 0 was 80x25, I picked
> that. No change. Tried hitting space too. No joy.
>
> Mode "a" was something ridiculous like 132x60, I tried that. It had
> teeny tiny text for maybe half a second, then went back to the 80x30
> mode. I think lilo is doing what I told it to, but some other
> program is switching to 80x30 after that. Any idea what program? How
> can I find it?
>  
Look in /etc/init.d for a script named something like SVGATextMode or 
something similar. If you see something like that, rename it (or disable 
it in one of several other methods) and reboot and see what happens.

If you don't see such a file try starting in Single user mode (at the 
LILO: prompt, enter something like 'linux S') and see what happens. If 
the video mode still changes, try entering at the LILO prompt something 
like 'linux init=/bin/bash' (a minimal-but-quite-crippled boot-up) and 
see what happens.