Re: Lilo and vga=791
On approximately Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:20PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> I am facing a peculiar problem while booting with a kernel which has
> framebuffer support.
>
> My lilo.conf is as follows:
>
> root=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot-bmp.b
vga=791
"belongs here, not in the append line"
> bitmap=/boot/ins64a.bmp
> bmp-colors=14,11,,15,9,0
> bmp-table=21,287p,2,4,175p
> bmp-timer=73,29,12,8,0
>
> default="deb"
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=1200
>
> image=/vmlinuz
> label="deb"
> root=/dev/hda3
> append="vga=791"
> read-only
> image=/vmlinuz.old
> label="old"
> root=/dev/hda3
> append="vga=791"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
> label=mdk9
> root=/dev/hda9
> append="vga=791"
> read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
>
> But when I choose 'deb', the system boots in 80x25 graphical mode,
> rather than 1024x768x64K mode. Surprisingly, it does if I pass the
> option vga=791 on the command line. FWIW, I am running sarge and the
> lilo version is 1:22.3.3-2. Has anyone faced something similar?
>
> Given a chance, I would like to use grub, but I _cannot_ with my present
> motherboard :-(
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Sridhar M.A.
>
> It was all so different before everything changed.
>
>
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