On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 13:56, duncan brown wrote: > one thing i noticed was your use of vga=0x31a, there is an easier method, > use the decimal equivalent. > > http://www.linuxadvocate.net/fb > > jludwig said: > > I have seen many really good hacks and many who love to play with this > > Release and Linux in general. What I haven't seen is any real advice on > > preemptive measures for error recovery. What do you do if you need only > > one or two files to fix the system but you can't get them because your > > system is down??? > > One piece of advice I will give is this. If you have the hard drive > > space, or even a old hard drive lying around, make yourself a backup > > system. As seen below I have one (From my grub.conf) because I do screw > > things. > > title Fedora Core (2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma) > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma ro root=LABEL=/1 > > hdc=ide-scsi vga=0x31a > > initrd /initrd-2.4.24-1.ll.rhfc1.ccrma.img > > title Fedora Core (2.6.4) > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.4 ro root=LABEL=/1 vga=0x31a > > initrd /initrd-2.6.4.img > > title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl) > > root (hd0,1) > > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/1 hdc=ide-scsi > > vga=0x31a > > initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img > > title EMG Boot > > root (hd0,0) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.9 ro root=/dev/hda3 /hdc=ide-scsi > > vga=0x31a > > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.9.img > > > > -- > > jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > -+(duncan brown > -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net > > Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy > evidence of the fact. > -- George Eliot I suppose there is but -- for a one shot entry -- its not bad. Also, under grub you can have grub scan for available video modes. Your kernel must support this -- the generic kernel does. At the grub bootup screen hit c then run the command vbeprobe for available options for your system. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
