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TalkingOctopus:
--- Quote from: lucindrea on January 17, 2005, 09:58:13 am ---
ah ok ... hmm , their are vga stuff you can put on the kernel line in grub for the command prompt .. just dont know them off hand and i'm at work ATM , if i work it out i'll post
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I figured out what I needed to. Thanks for the help. I can only boot into X, but once in X, I can run sbin/init 3 and it takes me to the prompt - a visible prompt!
lucindrea:
from the grub FAQ ( i know you fixed your problem , but i'm posting this anyway :P )
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.16 root=/dev/hda2 hdd=ide-scsi vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga = 791
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
darklegion:
There are issues with the framebuffer with late 2.6 kernels,so you may want to disable it completely which will probably reuiqre you to compile your own kernel.Also fedora is bugged at the best of times,so be prepared for these issues coming up often.The main reason for this is the kernels after 2.6.7 are pretty much like development series kernels i.e frequently bugged and with lots of new features that aren't stable yet new schedulers,reiser4,memory management tweaks etc. Hopefully these will all be ready by 2.6.11,as some of these tweaks bring some nice performance improvements.