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On Wednesday 22 February 2006 09:43, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > 'Scuse my noobness, but when I supply the following parameter to the arguments > of my kernel through GRUB, I get an 'undefined mode' error: > > vga=0164 > > But then, when the prompt comes up asking me which mode I want I type in: > > 0164 > > and I get the required mode! vga parameter is not passed to kernel itself, it is parsed by bootloader. Previously, booploaders had bugs versus vga=NN specified in hex and/or octal. Try entering decimal value. > What's happening? On 2.4 kernel, I used to boot with vga=0x0a (which is the > same mode as 0164) and it would boot fine. Not anymore... 0x0a != 0164, that's for sure -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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