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Screen resolution when booting into different partition

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From: bashley101@gmail.com (The Real Bev)
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Subject: Screen resolution when booting into different partition
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:42:41 -0700
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by: The Real Bev - Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:42 UTC

I use the command:

huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro

to do this, but the resulting screen is 80x20, which is intolerable. Is
there something I can add to this command to change the resolution? I'd
like vga=791 if possible.

--
Cheers, Bev
=====================================================================
If violence isn't solving the problem, you're not using enough of it.

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by: Henrik Carlqvist - Wed, 18 Aug 2021 16:53 UTC

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:42:41 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:

> I use the command:
>
> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro
>
> to do this, but the resulting screen is 80x20, which is intolerable. Is
> there something I can add to this command to change the resolution? I'd
> like vga=791 if possible.

Did you try:

huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro vga=791

regards Henrik

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From: bashley101@gmail.com (The Real Bev)
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Subject: Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition
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by: The Real Bev - Wed, 18 Aug 2021 18:29 UTC

On 08/18/2021 09:53 AM, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:42:41 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>
>> I use the command:
>>
>> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro
>>
>> to do this, but the resulting screen is 80x20, which is intolerable. Is
>> there something I can add to this command to change the resolution? I'd
>> like vga=791 if possible.
>
> Did you try:
>
> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro vga=791

Yes, just after I posted :-(

Thanks for the quick reply.

I'm experimenting with the slackware-current ISO. I find that the
command line has changed and now instead of rdinit you use initrd and
the commands to the frame buffer come before the root.

The following line works to get VGA=791:

huge.s vga=791 root=/dev/xxyy initrd= ro

But I'd rather have the mode set to give me 1920x1080, so it seems as
though the boot line is running with nomodeset. I tried adding modeset
or modeset=1 in place of the VGA, but with that I get the 80x24 display.

--
Cheers, Bev
Todd Flanders' hobbies include being quiet on long rides,
clapping to songs and diabetes.

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From: chris@mshome.net (Chris Elvidge)
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by: Chris Elvidge - Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:42 UTC

On 18/08/2021 07:29 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
> On 08/18/2021 09:53 AM, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:42:41 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>>
>>> I use the command:
>>>
>>> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro
>>>
>>> to do this, but the resulting screen is 80x20, which is intolerable. Is
>>> there something I can add to this command to change the resolution? I'd
>>> like vga=791 if possible.
>>
>> Did you try:
>>
>> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro vga=791
>
> Yes, just after I posted :-(
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I'm experimenting with the slackware-current ISO. I find that the
> command line has changed and now instead of rdinit you use initrd and
> the commands to the frame buffer come before the root.
>
> The following line works to get VGA=791:
>
> huge.s vga=791 root=/dev/xxyy initrd= ro
>
> But I'd rather have the mode set to give me 1920x1080, so it seems as
> though the boot line is running with nomodeset. I tried adding modeset
> or modeset=1 in place of the VGA, but with that I get the 80x24 display.
>

Try 'vga=ask' and follow the instructions

--
Chris Elvidge
England

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by: The Real Bev - Wed, 18 Aug 2021 19:45 UTC

On 08/18/2021 12:42 PM, Chris Elvidge wrote:
> On 18/08/2021 07:29 pm, The Real Bev wrote:
>> On 08/18/2021 09:53 AM, Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>>> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:42:41 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use the command:
>>>>
>>>> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro
>>>>
>>>> to do this, but the resulting screen is 80x20, which is intolerable. Is
>>>> there something I can add to this command to change the resolution? I'd
>>>> like vga=791 if possible.
>>>
>>> Did you try:
>>>
>>> huge.s root=/dev/xxyy rdinit=ro vga=791
>>
>> Yes, just after I posted :-(
>>
>> Thanks for the quick reply.
>>
>> I'm experimenting with the slackware-current ISO. I find that the
>> command line has changed and now instead of rdinit you use initrd and
>> the commands to the frame buffer come before the root.
>>
>> The following line works to get VGA=791:
>>
>> huge.s vga=791 root=/dev/xxyy initrd= ro
>>
>> But I'd rather have the mode set to give me 1920x1080, so it seems as
>> though the boot line is running with nomodeset. I tried adding modeset
>> or modeset=1 in place of the VGA, but with that I get the 80x24 display.

>
> Try 'vga=ask' and follow the instructions

Thanks.

The problem comes from /isolinux/isolinux.cfg which forces a null modset.

I've tried overriding by adding modeset or modeset=1 but that doesn't
override the null modeset.

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"I don't care who your father is! Drop that cross
one more time and you're out of the parade!"

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by: Henrik Carlqvist - Thu, 19 Aug 2021 06:11 UTC

On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 12:45:41 -0700, The Real Bev wrote:
> The problem comes from /isolinux/isolinux.cfg which forces a null
> modset.

If there is no easier solution to the problem, it is possible to make a
copy of the DVD contents, change isolinux.cfg in that copy and create a
new iso image using mkisofs.

regards Henrik

God doesn't play dice. -- Albert Einstein

computers / alt.os.linux.slackware / Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition

Subject	Author
Screen resolution when booting into different partition	The Real Bev
Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition	Henrik Carlqvist
Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition	The Real Bev
Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition	Chris Elvidge
Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition	The Real Bev
Re: Screen resolution when booting into different partition	Henrik Carlqvist