Text vs. Graphic mode

Forum: X and Fluxbox
Topic: Text vs. Graphic mode
started by: Neb

Posted by Neb on Dec. 19 2006,17:52

Pressing CTRL at boot gives me the LILO Boot Menu. At the bash prompt, typing VGA=788 and pressing enter to boot into that mode results in a prompt reading:

No such image. [Tab] shows a list.

Pressing the tab key yields nothing, in fact, no startup options work at all, they all give me the same message as above.

I'm trying to get the !@#$! thing to work properly in an 800x600 mode.

Any ideas?

Posted by ^thehatsrule^ on Dec. 19 2006,19:37

I don't think thats bash ...?

vga=788 is a boot/cheatcode that can be passed to the kernel on startup - it's not the kernel image. For lilo, you can put this in the APPEND= section. Not sure how lilo's quick editing works though.