Paul D. Brown said: > On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 10:16:21AM -0400, duncan brown wrote: >> how do i force a graphical install happen when i'm doing an install >> via grub entry? >> > What happened for you? What is your grub entry? I used > title Fedora Core 2 Install > root (hd1,0) > kernel /FC2-install > initrd /FC2-install.img > > (after copying vmlinux and initrd.img from disc 1 to the boot directory, > renamed as FC2-install and FC2-install.img respectively.) > My boot parition is on hdb1, that's why it shows root(hd1,0) above, just > change it to whereever your is (as you've probably already figured out). that's what i've done, but i've added a bit more. on the kernel line, i also have graphical resolution=1024x768 worked like a charm title Fedora Core 2 Install root (hd1,0) kernel /FC2-install graphical resolution=1024x768 initrd /FC2-install.img worked like a charm. +( duncan brown : duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx )+ +( linux "just works" : www.linuxadvocate.net )+ -------------------------------------------------- Understatement of the century: "Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" - Linus Torvalds, August 1991 --------------------------------------------------