Re: LiveCD bootloader

[Teresa e Junior]

On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <address@hidden> wrote:

> On 09/09/10 00:47, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930
> > Brendan Trotter<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> >    
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter<address@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >>      
> >>> GRUB and Linux use "video mode numbers" to request a video mode.
> >>> These video mode numbers can be different for different video
> >>> cards. Early versions of VBE did define some standard mode
> >>> numbers, but these became obsolete in VBE version 2.0 (back in
> >>> 1994). Software written after 1994 shouldn't rely on these
> >>> obsolete video mode numbers. For example, if you're lucky mode
> >>> 0x118 might be 1024*768 with 24-BPP, but nothing guarantees that
> >>> anymore, and it could easily be any other video mode. There's
> >>> also no guarantee that the the video card supports the video mode
> >>> (e.g. a lot of video cards only support 32-BPP video modes and
> >>> don't support any 24-BPP video modes; and some only support
> >>> 24-BPP video modes and not 32-BPP video modes; and the same is
> >>> true for 15-BPP vs. 16-BPP). 
> >> My apologies.
> >>
> >> It seems GRUB2 has improved a lot, and doesn't rely on the obsolete
> >> "standard video mode numbers" anymore. Except for problems caused
> >> by video modes that are supported by the video card but not
> >> supported by the monitor; it's mostly only a problem with Linux
> >> itself now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Brendan
> >>
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> >>      
> > Thanks! We have to set 640x480 as default anyway...
> >
> >    
> You can specify multiple comma-separated possibilities in order of 
> priorities
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> >    
> 
> 

Hello, Vladimir!

What do you mean with that? Let us suppose, I set:

GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800,1024x768,640x480

and if the hardware supports the first, it will use the first, and so
forth?

Thank you!
Teresa e Junior