[plug] grub

Jim Householder nofixed at westnet.com.au
Thu Feb 3 11:51:27 WST 2005


Carl Gherardi wrote:
> Hey Jim (Curious is Jim Householder your real name?)
> 
> On Thu, 03 Feb 2005 01:05:50 +0800, Jim Householder
> <nofixed at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>Having just installed ubuntu, I find I am now using grub instead of lilo.
>>
>>With lilo, vga=794 gave me 160x64 text mode.
>>
>>How do I do it with grub?  'info grub' has not enlightened me.  I *really* don't like 80x25 text on my 19" monitor.
> 
> 
> The vga= is just an argument to the kernel, much like '-l' to ls. In
> grub.conf you just need to append it to the end of the kernel line.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Carl G

Thanks guys.  Works fine.

Jim



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