On 09/14/2011 06:59 PM, John Foster wrote:
I recently had to do a new installation of squeeze on a production
server. Its been a LONG time since I did that and I see a few things
are different since my last time. I can not access the consoles by
hitting ctrl,alt, delete. I recall a couple of years ago that I had to
edit something somewhere to enable this feature. I like to use the
console for doing many things as root from a command line. I thought
it was a file in /etc/X11 but do not recall. Anyone know what & where
I should edit.
John,
I had the same problem using Lenny when I changed monitors. Found to
fix it was to add vga=785 to the end of the kernel lines in
/boot/grub//menu/./lst. The 785 has to do w. the font size. I forget
exactly how it all works but that was what did it for me.
Hope that helps. It did for me. I kept getting a message "out of
range. It did not like my new monitor for some reason.
Here is an example of some of the lines in my _old_ menu.lst file...
[...]
/
title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.26-1-amd64
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet _vga=785_
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64
[...]
Whit
