Grub and `other' OS

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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:
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>> 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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