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From: "sumedh tirodkar" <sumedhtirodkar@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: yaboot: text mode or graphics mode?
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I just found out that openfirmware boots into graphics mode(non-text
mode). Now i wish to switch back to text mode. how do i do this?

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 9:37 PM, sumedh tirodkar
<sumedhtirodkar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone knw what happens when we boot into yaboot,whether we are
> in text mode or graphics mode? If text mode then wat is the address of
> the screen? I need it to print some debug info..bt i either dnt seem
> to get the buffer address correct or i m not in text mode as yaboot
> has already switched to some other mode...
>
> Regards,
> Sumedh
>