[Fedora-livecd-list] Setting video resolution on boot up

[Mailbox99]

I did fail to say that the LiveCD that I was speaking of is the 
"Fedora Core 6 Zod LiveCD 1 iso image for i386" that I downloaded via 
bittorrent from the fedoraproject.org web site. So I have yet to get 
Fedora running on this desktop.

I was hoping that I would be able to use a command line option to 
force Fedora to use something other than the settings in the 
Kickstart configuration files. But this appears to not be an option. 
I guess this is one for the developers of the Zod LiveCD to work on.

Thanks for your help.

Paul Hudson






At 03:29 AM 1/29/2007, you wrote:
>Mailbox99 wrote:
>>Hello,
>>
>>When I try to boot the LiveCD, my monitor shows that the resolution 
>>is too high / out of specification. I end up with a blank screen 
>>and have no way of accessing Fedora.
>>
>>I tried booting with the installer option of "resolution=1024x768", 
>>but the LiveCD appears to not accept that command.
>>
>>Video card is a Matrox P650, the monitor is a Compaq V75, CPU: P4, 
>>2.8 GHz, 1 GB ram.
>>
>>Question: Does the installer check the monitor resolution on boot up?
>In the case of Kadischi, the resolution range is predefined using 
>Kickstart configuration files.
>
>1) resolution= is an Anaconda parsed parameter.
>2) vga= is a kernel parsed parameter.
>3) You are not looking at "the installer" when you boot a LiveCD.. 
>unless something has changed I am not aware of.
>3a) ISOLINUX and GRUB are both bootloaders, but not installers.
>
>My suggestion to you is to use a Kickstart configuration file using 
>a resolution and Hsync Vsync rates
>which match your CRT or LCD.
>
>If you are not meaning a LiveCD created by you with Kadischi, please 
>elaborate next time.
>Hope this helps.
>
>J. Hartline
>
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