Yaboot booting video=ofonly [SOLVED]

WhiteSpade · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 89

When I was booting off of the cd for me to get anything to display I needed to use video=ofonly. Now that my system is installed and I am trying to boot without the cd I am getting that same problem. Is this video thing something that can be fixed by building something into the kernel, or do I have to edit my yaboto.conf and add the video=ofonly option somewhere. If there is any way that I can do this without touching yaboo.conf I would like that, since I have one of those hellish situations where hdc become hda. ybin doesn't play nicely with that, doable, but not clean. Also, I will be using this machine as a server, so there is no need for any graphics beyond the command line. Thanks in advance.

---Alex

JoseJX · Retired Dev Joined: 28 Apr 2002 Posts: 2774

If you don't need graphics beyond the command line, video=ofonly should work fine. You can add it to your yaboot.conf by adding append="video=ofonly" to your kernel image section. If you don't want to do this, we could try and figure out what video card you have, then build only support for that one into the kernel. This should remove the need for video=ofonly.
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WhiteSpade · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 89

Thanks. I ended up going the yaboot.conf route and added the video=ofonly. It works now. I appreciate your help.

---Alex