Video made boot error

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hi All,

Running SUSE 11.1 and Gnome desktop. All was fine then I started to get an error message after the login splash screen. “undefined video mode 31a” I either have to select one, press space or wait 30 seconds then boot continues in verbose mode. Darned if I can figure what happened tried all I knew (not much). Any help?

KenM

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Hi
Sounds like the last part of the ‘kernel’ line in grub is missing
vga=0x31a and only has vga=31a. Check from the CLI first, then edit if
required.


sudo cat /boot/grub/menu.lst

You should see something like the following


###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title openSUSE 11.1 - 2.6.27.21-0.1
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-0.1-default
root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD360GD-00FNA0_WD-WMAH91531908-part2 resume=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD360GD-00FNA0_WD-WMAH91531908-part1 splash=silent showopts vga=0x31a
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.27.21-0.1-default

To fix, edit with;


gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

–
Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.27.21-0.1-default
up 3:28, 3 users, load average: 0.19, 0.24, 0.16
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 180.51

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Thanks… Video mode is set to 0x31a in all three menu options. Reset video mode in YAST and the splash screen indicates 0x31a but the verbose screen indicates 31a now what? How can they be different? KenM