From: Teresa e Junior <teresaejunior@gmail.com>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LiveCD bootloader
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 20:00:20 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908200020.676f739a@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C8813AB.4070206@gmail.com>
On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:52:27 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/09/10 00:47, Teresa e Junior wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 2010 14:54:25 +0930
> > Brendan Trotter<btrotter@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Brendan Trotter<btrotter@gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> GRUB and Linux use "video mode numbers" to request a video mode.
> >>> These video mode numbers can be different for different video
> >>> cards. Early versions of VBE did define some standard mode
> >>> numbers, but these became obsolete in VBE version 2.0 (back in
> >>> 1994). Software written after 1994 shouldn't rely on these
> >>> obsolete video mode numbers. For example, if you're lucky mode
> >>> 0x118 might be 1024*768 with 24-BPP, but nothing guarantees that
> >>> anymore, and it could easily be any other video mode. There's
> >>> also no guarantee that the the video card supports the video mode
> >>> (e.g. a lot of video cards only support 32-BPP video modes and
> >>> don't support any 24-BPP video modes; and some only support
> >>> 24-BPP video modes and not 32-BPP video modes; and the same is
> >>> true for 15-BPP vs. 16-BPP).
> >> My apologies.
> >>
> >> It seems GRUB2 has improved a lot, and doesn't rely on the obsolete
> >> "standard video mode numbers" anymore. Except for problems caused
> >> by video modes that are supported by the video card but not
> >> supported by the monitor; it's mostly only a problem with Linux
> >> itself now.
> >>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> Brendan
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Grub-devel mailing list
> >> Grub-devel@gnu.org
> >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >>
> > Thanks! We have to set 640x480 as default anyway...
> >
> >
> You can specify multiple comma-separated possibilities in order of
> priorities
> > _______________________________________________
> > Grub-devel mailing list
> > Grub-devel@gnu.org
> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
> >
> >
>
>
Hello, Vladimir!
What do you mean with that? Let us suppose, I set:
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x800,1024x768,640x480
and if the hardware supports the first, it will use the first, and so
forth?
Thank you!
Teresa e Junior
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-08 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-08 2:42 LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 5:09 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 5:24 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-08 8:34 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:47 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-08 22:52 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:00 ` Teresa e Junior [this message]
2010-09-08 23:29 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 23:46 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 1:33 ` Brendan Trotter
2010-09-09 6:51 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 8:36 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-08 22:46 ` Teresa e Junior
2010-09-09 7:53 ` future of grub commands setup and install ? Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-09 12:14 ` Robert Millan
2010-09-10 6:28 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-10 6:38 ` Treutwein Bernhard
2010-09-08 15:28 ` LiveCD bootloader Andreas Born
2010-09-08 15:46 ` Colin Watson
2010-09-08 16:31 ` GRUB2 fails when booting from CD Andreas Born
2010-09-26 20:22 ` Andreas Born
2010-09-27 15:17 ` Phillip Susi
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[not found] ` <4CA219B9.3020209@googlemail.com>
[not found] ` <4CA22FC6.9000701@cfl.rr.com>
2010-09-28 20:19 ` Andreas Born
2010-12-25 20:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-12-27 12:30 ` Andreas Born
2011-01-04 14:45 ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2010-09-08 22:48 ` LiveCD bootloader Teresa e Junior
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2010-09-09 10:34 Tom Davies
2010-09-15 1:21 ` Teresa e Junior
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