is there way to automatically add the VGA=791 in menu.lst file?

Alan Milnes deep64blue at itguru.org.uk
Thu Jun 19 11:46:42 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
>
>   
>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:02:15PM +0100, Alan Milnes wrote:
>>     
>>> Funnily enough if you look at menu.lst "vga=791" is precisely the
>>> example thye give of how to do this:-
>>>
>>> ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with
>>> ## the alternatives
>>> ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
>>> # defoptions=
>>>
>>> so you would put vga=791 at the end of the last line.
>>>
>>> Do not uncomment it - this is a special line telling grub what
>>> parameters to add.
>>>       
>> <pointless-nitpick>
>>
>> It's the update-grub script that processes this line, not grub itself.
>>
>> </pointless-nitpick>
>>     
>
> It's not entirely pointless.  
It's not pointless at all - I found it very informative.

Thanks!

Alan




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