Re: change video mode at boot with lilo, strange things

[ABrady <kcsmart kc rr com>]

On Sun, 2 Sep 2001 21:23:53 +0200 (CEST) LuisMi <luismi adpsoft com>
imparted to us:

> I put in my /etc/lilo.conf: vga=1
> I run lil again to save the changes.
> I reboot the system.
> 
> Linux starts with the new video mode, perfectly but when the system
> loads
> the default font it changes the video mode to the default :(
> 
> I don´t understand anything about this problem.
> In the past I made the same steps without problems.
> 
> Any idea?
> 
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> LuisMi
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During boot a file called setsysfont (in /sbin) gets called and royally
screws things up. I comment out everything except the first & last lines
and everything works like I want it to work.

Alternatively you could rename the file and make one (almost) empty with
the same name. All it really needs to keep things moving is the very
first line (the one that says #!/bin/sh) and the execute bit set on the
file itself.

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