Re: Lilo and vga=791

[Haralambos Geortgilakis <haralambos@ihug.co.nz>]

Hi Yall & Sridhar,

just change it too

vga=791

for each option you want too; no append statement is needed.

That way, you can have multiple resolutions available @ boot time.

Well, try it with one & see how that goes. The above is how I work mine :-)

*BFN*

H :-)

Arrogant dragon will have cause to repent


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
>
>  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,
>
>