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Topic: How to chage the start-up timeout ?, don'twant to wait for 30s ...

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winux

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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,09:12

Hi guys

Let me explain: after a long fight, I finally succeded my starting-up on HD w/o re-entering every time all my parameters (thx to the forum).

I selected just one choice in menu.lst: the 800x600 one
w/ timeout=1

BUT, for any reason after this "one second wait", I've got the message:

"you passed an undefined mode number, press RETURN to see video mode, SPACE to continue or WAIT 30s"

If I press SPACE, everything's fine finally BUT is there any way to reduce the 30s down to one second for instance? in order to make it fully automatic

It's not vital, but "nice to have"!!!!

Thx for the info :laugh:

cyberoidx

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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,10:43

type vga=normal in the boot, along with other parameters
eg:
dsl vga=normal desktop=twm ... etc

winux

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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,11:29

Thx cyberoidx, I'll check that out

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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,13:03

Have you tried editing menu.lst and setting it exactly how you want? In a frugal install, it's in /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst after mounting /dev/hda1.

winux

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Posted: Jan. 21 2006,13:37

Quote (larkl @ Jan. 21 2006,08:03)

Have you tried editing menu.lst and setting it exactly how you want? In a frugal install, it's in /mnt/hda1/boot/grub/menu.lst after mounting /dev/hda1.

That's a good question larkl because I did it.

I masked in menu.lst (which is in my case in /cdrom/boot/grub. Very strange, it took me some time to find it out!) every screen definition except the one I wish 800x600. I try this nice s/w on an old Pentium MMX 200MHz, 1.5 G, 190 M

Here are the significant lines on my menu.lst
default 0
timeout 1
title DSL fb800x600
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda1 quiet vga=789 noacpi noapm nodma noscsi frugal
initrd /boot/minirt24.gz

I turned my vga= from 788 to 789 (to have 24 bits color depth)
It worked that way in live CD 800x600x24bits, but now it says:

"you passed an undefined mode number ...

I don't know exactly what to add/change? any idea? That would of course resolve the 30s timeout!!! and would be great

Thx for your comments

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