boot screen

[ppberns]

Hi,

I have several systems and on them when I boot I can see all the info scroll across the screen with OK or FAIL (on the right hand side) depending on how things go (in menu.lst I have removed from the boot lines "splash" so I don't get the boot splash).
But on my amd64 system the boot messages are quite large and I can't see
the OK or FAIL indicators (on the right hand side of the display). Now
on the other systems I see that there is on the boot line in menu.lst
"vga=791". I tried to put that in the amd64 menu.lst and all I get is a
blank screen during boot up. After the system boots, everything is fine and get my graphics back and all works. Anyone notice this during there boot up and found how to reduce the graphics on boot up so you can see whats going on?

[jankushka]

Re: boot screen

don't really know.
but you might find some more info in the help section of the installation cd.
there should be one on the desktop cd and on the minimal cd.
recently i was able to fix an old laptop's screen issues by adding "vga=771" to the boot line.
info that i found in the abovementioned help page.
thought it could be useful...
hth

[ppberns]

Re: boot screen

Hi,

Thanks for the info. I found that if I add the line "vga=ask" it will prompt me for the resolution I want. It presents a numbered list so what I had to do was to actually pick the number from the menu and use that ex: "vga=6". It would not work for me when I use "vgs=781" etc.

Thanks again.