Grub and `other' OS

[Christoph Wickert]

ne... schrieb:

>On Oct 14, 2003 at 23:13, James Drabb in a soothing rage wrote:
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>>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:
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>>>    kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 vga=ask
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>>>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.
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>>>Anyone know what that is the case?
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>This gets reset by something in /etc/rc.sysinit. It happened
>to me eons ago before I started using the method mentioned
>below.
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/etc/sysconfig/init, there's something about "colums", set to ~120

Christoph

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