Bug 30148 - RFE: Option in anaconda to make Linux boot in framebuffer
Summary: RFE: Option in anaconda to make Linux boot in framebuffer
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-03-01 05:11 UTC by Arion Blishen
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-09-27 20:44:04 UTC
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Description Arion Blishen 2001-03-01 05:11:09 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686; en-US; 0.8)
Gecko/20010211


Please put the option in anaconda to make Linux boot in GUI mode (This is
so easy) 

In /etc/lilo.conf insert a line vga=791
Note: 791=16-bit colour, 792=32-bit colour, ask=prompt user for mode

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2001-03-01 17:38:20 UTC 
Will consider for future release - we are not adding features at this point.
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-22 01:00:07 UTC 
Code for this is in CVS and will probably be enabled for the next release
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