Unable to set vga mode on alternate install Lucid 10.04

[Dougal Ballantyne]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Benjamin Drung <bdrung at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 28.03.2010, 14:01 +0200 schrieb Dougal Ballantyne:
>> I am not sure if this is the right mailing list for this but I am
>> having problems trying to do a fresh install of Luicd 10.04 Beta
>> amd64. Specifically I am unable to make it past the first menu with a
>> working display.
>>
>> I am installing on a HP Compaq 6710b and have in the past set vga=791
>> when installing 9.10 Karmic amd64. It appears that this is not longer
>> supported on the Luicd install. I have found references to gfxmode=
>> and gfxpayload= settings for grub2 but not solution to setting the
>> correct graphics mode when installing.
>>
>> Does anybody know of the method to change the vga/graphics mode at
>> install time on the Lucid 10.04 alternate cd?
>
> Today I used vga=771 with an lucid desktop amd64 image. This may work
> for the alternate CD.
>

I cannot use the desktop CD because I am running LVM. I will get it a
download and see if I am able to at least boot it and get further than

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> Benjamin Drung
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>