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- From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli)
- Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.084207.20690@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 08:42:07 GMT
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- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
- ...
- >> It comes up extended without asking. rdev -v /vmlinux -3, now rdev
- >> -v says mode is 65553, and STILL it does not ask - comes up extended
- >> anyway.
-
- >The boot sector in /vmlinux is ignored. Try `rdev -v /dev/hda -3' (or
- >`rdev -v /dev/sda -3').
-
- Thanks for the tip, but, no go. I have rdev -v'd to -3 everything I could
- think of, including /dev/hda, /dev/hda2 (where things reside), /vmlinux,
- even a bootable floppy, and it STILL comes up extended without asking!
- Maybe the lilo in the SLS 0.99 distribution is just too obsolete (it's
- version 5, I think; file dates in early september) and I should get a new
- one...?
-
-
- Alex
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