Grub and `other' OS
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akabi at speakeasy.net
Wed Oct 15 22:59:15 UTC 2003
On Oct 14, 2003 at 23:13, James Drabb in a soothing rage wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 11:33, Harry Putnam wrote:
[...]
>> It gives examples of setting vga by appending to the root line like:
>>
>> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=ask
>>
>> doing this and selectinbg various of those offered I see the selected
>> size only lasts about 100 or so lines then the standard size
>> re-emerges so that most of teh boot messages are in the standard size
>> instead of what ever was selected.
>>
>> Anyone know what that is the case?
This gets reset by something in /etc/rc.sysinit. It happened
to me eons ago before I started using the method mentioned
below.
>You can get a better resolution by using your video cards frame buffer.
>
>From the file /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt
>
> | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
>----+-------------------------------------
>256 | 0x301 0x303 0x305 0x307
>32k | 0x310 0x313 0x316 0x319
>64k | 0x311 0x314 0x317 0x31A
>16M | 0x312 0x315 0x318 0x31B
>
>Use one of these numbers instead of the ask value for vga. On my
>laptop, I use 800x600 @ 64k by appending vga=0x314 to my kernel line
>in grub.conf.
I happen to have a Matrox G550 and in RH9 used
append="video=matrox:vesa:447" in my /etc/lilo.conf.
While using the 2.6-test kernels, this changed to
'video=matroxfb:vesa:447' in grub.conf. I now use
vga=791 in FC Test 3 and have tried vga=447, vga=0x1BF
and video=matrox:vesa:447 to no avail. I want to run
my monitor at 1600x1200 at 32bpp or 24bpp. I'd really
appreciate any help I can get for the correct parameter
to pass to grub.
TIA
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