From: amartell@nyx.cs.du.edu (Alex Martelli) Subject: Re: [Q] How to change text video mode in SLS startup Date: 27 Dec 1992 08:42:07 GMT
mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
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>> 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