Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> writes: > On Mon, 24 May 2010 05:29:56 -0400 (EDT), Ferenc Wagner wrote: > >> Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> writes: >>> >>> Both grub-legacy and grub-pc use sectors on the hard disk outside of >>> the master boot record [...] >> >> You may want to try extlinux, it works much like LILO in this respect. > > Thanks for the tip. That may be an option. I looked at the documentation > online, and there does not appear to be an option equivalent to lilo's > vga option, though, which I use a lot, especially since svgatextmode > has already been pulled from squeeze.
I'm not sure what you're after, I haven't used LILO for ages. But typing vmlinuz-2.6.32 vga=0xf07 at the pxelinux boot prompt gives me a 80x60 console. The other variants use the same code. >> It lacks a convenient configuration system, but that of grub-legacy >> would be easy to adapt, and I actually plan to work on this. > > if you have the requisite skills to become the equivalent of lilo > upstream, I think there's a lot of people who would rather that you do > that, myself included. Sorry, I don't trust in the future of LILO myself. If there's anything which only LILO can do, I recommend you start complaining on the Syslinux and the Grub mailing lists. I suppose it will be heard. -- Regards, Feri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87typxyzbk....@tac.ki.iif.hu
