Breezy Badger milestone release "Colony 3" now available

[Matthew Garrett]

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:03:30AM +0200, MadMan2k wrote:

> but I'll try regenerating initramfs.
> Perhaps I should also mention this applies to the installer-kernel too 
> (linux-expert vga=792); you dont get any output
> until the installer renders the ncurses stuff....

If you pass vga=792, the bootloader puts the display in a VESA mode. 
The kernel doesn't know how to display anything to that until the vesafb 
module is loaded, which happens just before the installer UI starts. The 
framebuffer module could be loaded earlier, I guess.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org