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- From: dsc3pzp@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil (Philip Perucci)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup
- Message-ID: <Bzxou6.Mq3@nmrdc1.nmrdc.nnmc.navy.mil>
- Date: 27 Dec 92 19:58:52 GMT
- References: <1992Dec25.211549.15414@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1hhi0qINN5ce@life.ai.mit.edu> <1992Dec27.084207.20690@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
- Organization: Naval Medical Research & Development Command
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- In article <1992Dec27.084207.20690@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) writes:
- >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...?
- >
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- LILO 0.7 is REQUIRED for Linux 0.98pl6 and above.
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