Re: [Devil-linux-develop] [enhancement] tshark

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@ar...>:

>> This unfortunately won't work, since we're booting of a CD.
>> ISOLinux has a lot of improvements in the menu systems in the latest
>> release, somebody wants to send in a patch for a better menu system
>> during boot?
>
> Since we're looking at boot improvements, here's what I'd like:
>
> I would like to be able to change the default for the resolution, so it
> remembers it for future boots.  i.e. I want to be select "3" (1024x768)
> and have it remember that setting so I don't have to type 3 every boot.
>
> Does anyone know if that's possible with a "better menu system"?

Well we do not have an option to save the setting.
BUT
Maybe there's a program out there which can be used to change the  
resolution after the system is booted up.

> If not, what would happen if I changed the official "server release" to
> default to 1024x768?  I know some hardware doesn't support higher
> resolutions, but would it prevent the system from booting without manual
> intervention, or would the system just print an warning and continue
> booting at a lower resolution?  I don't think I have any old hardware to
> test this on.  And I REALLY get sick of trying to catch the boot prompt
> and typing "3" when I'm rebooting a lot during development.

Set vga=2137 or some other invalid value and see what the system does.

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org



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