On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 04:24, Artemio wrote:
> > after upgrading to 2.4.22-18 the nice blue screen disappeared at startup
> > ( the one with 9.2 in the bottom RH corner)
> > It still starts up as graphical lilo then drops to text mode.
> 
> In order to have graphical boot mode, you need to have 800x600 frame buffer 
> mode. The installation might have changed it to other mode.
> 
> Checkout your /etc/lilo.conf. My config was like this to have 800x600 mode:
> 
> ...
> 
Wonder why the ability to do larger than 800x600 in fb was dropped. 
hmmm explains why I can't get FB on my 9.2 box when I had it in 9.1.

James

> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>         label="mdk_linux"
>         root=/dev/hda1
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5 
> splash=silent"
>         read-only
>       vga=788
>           ^^^
>        your vga mode
> 
> ...
> 
> You should have vga=788 in your boot kernel. 
> 
> Also, "splash=silent" append option changes the boot look (didn't test this - 
> it probably changes to verbose mode just if you pressed "esc").
> 
> 
> I have vga=791 for 1024x768 console, for example - just because I love the 
> oldschool kernel boot mode :-)
> 
> 
> 
> Good luck and hope this works for you.
> 
> 
> 
> Artemio.
> 
> 
> 
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