HD Install :: How to use a cheat code in hd install????

Quote (jfley @ Jan. 20 2006,09:43)

Hi there..
I have a truoble with my laptop display,
so I need need use a cheat code vga=xxx at the boot time
this work fine with the live cd, but how can i use it in the hd install??

Thanks..

I see that you've solved it but thought I'd drop in my .02 anyway.
Add vga=xxx somewhere near the top of your lilo.conf file,open a command prompt and issue the command

Code Sample

dsl@box:~$lilo

reboot it should work every boot that way.

Heres an example lilo.conf file that works using this method with correct placement of the vga=xxx line
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DO NOT copy paste this file. USE IT FOR REFERENCE ONLY as your setup is quite likely different than the one this conf file was generated for.

Code Sample

lba32 #enable large disk support
timeout=30 #wait 3 seconds before auto-booting
vga=788 #set screen dimensions and bit depth
boot=/dev/hda #put boot loader in MBR of target disk
root=/dev/hda1 #set root to be partition of target disk
image=/boot/linux24
label=DSL
initrd=/boot/minirt24.gz
read-only
APPEND="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce nodma quiet frugal BOOT_IMAGE=/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX restore=hda5 opt=hda5 home=hda5 dma mydsl=hda5"

Hope that was useful,
Rob

original here.