Grub and `other' OS

Harry Putnam reader at newsguy.com
Wed Oct 15 10:24:22 UTC 2003


James Drabb <JDrabb at tampabay.rr.com> writes:

>>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.

Ah yes, this avoids those horrible looking fonts that get used at
vga=3 or 6, and the size remains in place throughout bootup.

vga=0x318  seems about right here....
Thanks.





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