On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 09:06 pm, many eyes noted that John Richard Smith wrote:
> Jerry Barton wrote:
> >On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:41:07 +0000
> >
> >Jerry Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I'm a bit late on this thread but... have you tried running mcc, going
> >>to boot/Drakboot then "advanced" and in the dropdown menu selecting
> >>"lilo with text menu" instead of "lilo with graphical menu?" I don't
> >>pay a whole lot of attention anymore what happens when I boot since
> >>I've got all my issues worked out (though I can totally understand why
> >>you'd not want the whole blue splash screen thing) but wouldn't that
> >>fix it all?
> >>
> >>I hope this is of help to you.
> >>
> >>Jerry.
> >
> >Supplement: this should change the whole boot up process to the text
> >boot instead of the whole graphical thing. I just rebooted with that
> >option and since i have init 3 set in inittab i never got any graphical
> >stuff... just the old lilo: prompt and total text boot up to a text
> >login: prompt. it showed the good old scrolling init instead of the
> >fancy framebuffer stuff. It was like booting my old Slack... no
> >nifty eye candy and such. Is that what you're looking for?
>
> Yes that is basically right but with good screen resolution , ie VGA=791
>
> >Sorry if
> >I've missed a few points of your objective here, just trying to help you
> >out.
>
> Oh, no , please don't be offended and if I have caused that ,
> unreserved appologies.
> No I'm frustrated with myself because I cannot remember what controls
> the switch from gui to text in the higher screen boot resolutions. Maybe
> the MCC route will accomplish this for me haven't tried it yet, but I
> like to know how to do this from my knowledge of how it all works,
> rather that from "dumb" Control Centers methods that encourage
> ignorance, but is sometimes the easy way, once you know how it's all
> done, and save time. Not that it always does. It's not an init control,
> I'm not trying to boot to a consul, I'm not trying to boot on some low
> screen resolution with B/W text , I'm trying to to get back to where I
> was with a decent boot screen resolution and B/W text, full screen
> width. So the last thing I want is anything under vga=791, because that
> gives me a boot script with a good screen resolution.
>
> John
Is this what you want? I have saved this from another post, so I cannot give
the author the credit, because I don't know who it was? But it wasn't me.
You have to set a vga=xxx string in lilo.conf.
Lets' asuume you have a lilo.conf like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
default="linux"
....
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda5"
read-only
vga=7xx
^^^
this is your vga mode
You have to set it to vga=791 in order to have a 1024x768 color console. You
can set this vga=791 string per kernel image, or for all kernel images - then
include this line at the top of lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
vga=791
...
Then just say "lilo" as root and reboot to see your new beautiful console :-P
Read the "Framebuffer-HOWTO" if you want another (non-1024x768 or with
16/256/etc colors) vga mode.
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