From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:00:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:00:14 -0500 Received: from host149-39.pool212171.interbusiness.it ([212.171.39.149]:25731 "EHLO nehwon.homeip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 19:00:13 -0500 Message-ID: <3E10EDC8.4030006@unica.it> Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2002 01:07:20 +0000 From: Roberto De Leo User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: fbdev - boot parameter question Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am developing a mini linux CD distro (movix.sf.net) and I would like to set up the boot in the following way: by default the CD should boot with the vesa FB support on, but for those cards for which the vesa FB fails the kernel should switch _automatically_ to the standard setting it would use if it had started with the "video=vesa:off" boot parameter. What I get now when vesa FB fails to load is instead the kernel prompt asking the user to choose among all available console modes, and I would be very happy if I could avoid that. I looked in the LILO HOWTO and in the BootPrompt HOWTO and in the bootparam man page but could not find any way to do this. Any hint would be welcome. If there is no parameter available, can you at least let me know which file should I change to set the standard linux console mode as the default in case the vesa FB load fails? Please, CC any answer to my mail address since I am not subscribed to the ML. Thanks, Roberto De Leo