linux boot question

spaceg · 08-27-2003, 09:32 PM

Whenever linux boots i get a message that says "You passed an undefined mode number" " Press return to see video modes available or press spacebar to continue or wait thirty secs" and it pauses for a while then boots into linux. This is very annoying can anyone tell me how to make it stop doing that?

rshadow · 08-27-2003, 09:40 PM

you might want to reconfigure x11. Just a guess, but it sounds like something in your x config file is not right.

kundor · 08-27-2003, 10:20 PM

No, i believe it's a problem in your lilo.conf.

Edit your /etc/lilo.conf -- first become root (type "su") -- then, at a console, you can use "vi /etc/lilo.conf", or in a graphical desktop, use "kedit /etc/lilo.conf" Look for a line starting vga= and try making it vga=788. There may be multiple lines, look for them all.

Afterwards, run lilo to reinstall your bootloader.

If you don't use lilo, ignore this

Quasaur · 11-25-2003, 07:28 AM

I've posted the same problem in the Mandrake forum.

The thing is...i'm using grub, not lilo...does grub use /etc/lilo.conf???

Quasaur · 11-25-2003, 07:50 AM

SOLUTION:

EDIT /boot/grub/menu.list & replace "vga=0x0122" with the one of the correct modes (i use "0x0f00") --USE LOWERCASE!!!

What led me astray was that the same errant option, "vga=0x0122", was in /etc/lilo.conf.
So i corrected it in lilo.conf, ran "lilo" and rebooted.

The caveat was that LILO took over the boot process from GRUB.

After correcting /boot/grub/menu.lst i rebooted, and the error went away!

YEAH!!!