[Fedora-livecd-list] Booting Live CD in VESA mode

[Todd N]

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From: Jeremy Katz <katzj at redhat.com>
To: fedora-livecd-list at redhat.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 3:03:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Booting Live CD in VESA mode

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:50 -0700, Todd N wrote:
> Is there an easy way to change a boot option for the Live CD, as the
> system is booting, so that the generic VESA video driver is used?  I
> have tried adding "video=vesafb vga=791" to the boot options but the
> systems using the Live CD (we have tried several different machines
> with varying hardware) still boot up using the default driver for
> their particular video card.  It would be nice to be able to interrupt
> the boot process to override this default and use the generic VESA
> driver.

boot with 'xdriver=vesa'

Jeremy
> 

Looks like it's working.  Thanks much!

Todd

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