On Tuesday 02 December 2003 15:59, David Holden wrote:
How do you set it so that the initial boot is at a specific resolution, our LCD display do 1280x1024, is this an argument I can give to the boot prompt.
When booting from the install CD, there's a tab at the bottom that shows the resolution that grub (I assume) detected. It always detects my 15" as 1280x1024, even though the screen is 1024x768 - I'ts been like that in 8.0, 8,1 and 8,2. Set that one lower. If you need a lower res for booting an already installed system, highlight your choice in the grub bootmenu, press e, highlight the kernel line and press e again. There should be a line that says something like vga=791 - change this to vga=normal. You'll loose splash, but your console will work. You can try moving it up notch by notch (vga=1, vga=2, ect) and see what your monitor can handle.
Also will this setting carry forward to the console screens, e.g. tty1, tty2 etc Yes
Hans