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to: Jasen Betts
from: Viktor Pilpenok
date: 2004-09-18 03:24:30
subject: Re: FONTS

Hello Jasen!

17 Sep 04 08:22, you wrote to Russell Tiedt:

 JB> the crazy sync rate was a pain too, I had to port svgatextmode from
 JB> linux to dos (only a few changes were needed) so that I could set the
 JB> video mode to something I could actually read during the boot process.
 JB> But as loadlin.exe doesn't work with 2.4 or later kernels, and the
 JB> linux bootstrap video mode code only gives BIOS modes (none of which
 JB> are suitable) it's out in the back of my garage at the moment.

Umm why? i use loadlin to boot 2.6 all the time (i hate lilo) and used it
with 2.0, 2.2 and 2.4.

Best Regards, Viktor (aka BlackDew)

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