Enabling high resolution console in GRUB?

lsakhvoruk · 04-19-2002, 10:38 AM

Hi everyone! This is my first post here! I've read a lot of threads and I like this forum!

I am trying to enable a higher resolution to use in my console. I can do that with Slack using LILO and frame buffer modules for VESA 2.0 compliant cards, but I am having a difficult time getting the same thing to work in Red Hat 7.2 using GRUB! In LILO I can just pass a vga='decimal number corresponding to the mode I want' parameter and it works. Is there anything of that nature that I can do in GRUB?

Thanks for your help! Leo.

linuxcool · 04-20-2002, 04:38 AM

Edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file. The file might also be named grub.conf. Look for a line that looks something like this:

kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular noapic nosmp debug=2 root=/dev/hda6

You can add your ' vga= ' like this:

kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-pc97-2.2.14-modular noapic nosmp debug=2 root=/dev/hda6 vga=274