John on S8

Colin Watson cjwatson at canonical.com
Sun Sep 12 13:19:38 CDT 2004


On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 10:53:13AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:53:12PM +0800, John wrote:
> > Installer doesn't propogate VGA=791 to grub config.
> 
> This was discussed; I agree it would be nice for any custom options to be
> passed on to the installed system, especially useful where they are
> necessary to boot successfully (e.g. to work around buggy BIOSes).
> 
> Colin, is this a Hoary item?

Not necessarily. Joey did work upstream to make this work automatically;
I'm planning to look at backporting that tonight, since it's come up in
a number of installation reports as well as annoying me personally.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]




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