Grub Startup Graphics

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Fr, den 19.03.2004 schrieb jludwig um 19:23:
> When I first started out I had this line for terminal graphics;
> 
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=733
> 
> But I played with GRUB and now will not accept vga=733

I think 733 is not a valid resolution. What do you expect?
This is what I know:

  Colours   640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
  --------+---------------------------------------------
  256     |   769     771      773      775       796
  32,768  |   784     787      790      793       797
  65,536  |   785     788      791      794       798
  16.8M   |   786     789      792      795       799

> Does anyone know of a DOC that explains how to set up GRUB to accept
> vga= options?

The "quasi-standard"
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO.html

http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/files/vesafb.txt
if Kernel source is installed see
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/svga.txt 
/usr/src/linux-2.4/Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt

Christoph