Re: 2.3.49 idiosyncrasies

From: Thomas Molina (tmolina@home.com)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 08:02:43 EST


On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Sean Connor wrote:
> That is, if I type in
>
> linux vga=780
>
> at the lilo prompt, then, indeed, the kernel starts up in the indicated
> mode.
>
> But, if I try to put
>
> append="vga=780"
>
> in my lilo.conf file, or try to set the video mode with the knl command,
> then the kernel just boots up in the default 80x25 video mode.

The parameter goes on a line by itself, rather than in the append. Like
so:
append="ide0=dma"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=0x318
prompt
timeout=50

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