Tip of the Week 2005-09-12
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Tip of the week: How to get Tux to watch your Boot Screen
This weeks tip of the week is a short and sweet tip, on how to get a picture of Tux on your boot screen
- submitted by Jonathan Robinson (mailto:jonathanpete@gmail.com)
- When the GRUB screen appears, select Fedora, and press 'a'
- Add this to the list of parameters: vga=769
- You may want to remove the lines rhgb quiet
- Press Enter
You can play areound with the vga=x settings to get different screen sizes
If you want to make this change permanent, add it to the file /etc/grub.conf
Here is the section from mine
title Fedora Core (2.6.11-1.1369_FC4)
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/ vga=769
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
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