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Author: ramkumar.m.v
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Subject: Re: [dyne:bolic] Video advice/help?
Hi Patti,

You can look at this tutorial for booting from
hard-disk(called docking).
http://lab.dyne.org/Docking

I belive it's a starightforward process,but I haven't
tried it. More exprerienced users in this forum could
help you out if you run into any problem.

Regards
Ram

--- PattiMichelle <miche1@???> wrote:

> Thank You, Ramkumar - it worked well. I just
> downloaded the latest
> version yesterday. Now I need to know how to boot
> it from hard drive.
> I know you just copy a directory from the CD to a
> hard drive, but there
> are two logical partitions on this HD: XP on
> partition 0 and room for
> DynaBolic on partition1. Do I need to install a
> boot manager of some sort?
>
> ramkumar.m.v wrote:
> > Hi Patti,
> >
> > Are you using Dyne 1 or Dyne 2 release candidate?
> >
> > Here's my observation on Dyne 2 release candidate:
> >
> > Pressing f3 key before booting does show options
> for
> > setting the resolution in a matrix format, and
> 800x600
> > 16 bit is the default.
> >
> > On the boot prompt,type linux vga=XXX, where XXX
> is
> > the number corrsponding to the resolution you want
> and
> > the bit (18,15,16 or 24) rate you want.
> >
> > For 1280x1024, 8bit number is 775
> > 15 bit number is 793
> > 16 bit number is 794
> > 24 bit number is 795
> >
> > I tried setting mine to 1024x768 16 bit as linux
> > vga=791 and it booted perfectly.
> >
> > Regards
> > Ram
> >
> >
> > --- PattiMichelle <miche1@???> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Hi - I'm building a video/multimedia box for a
> >> friend who is a graduate
> >> film editor, and found out about Dyna:bolic. The
> >> live CD boots fine and
> >> looks good *except* I can get only 800x600
> >> resolution on my monitor.
> >> Under other Linux distros (and WinXP) it's no
> >> trouble to do 1280x1024
> >> (EliteGroup RC410L/800-M board with ATI Radeon
> >> Express 200 on-board
> >> video). So I think it's defaulting to 800x600
> due
> >> to lack of proper
> >> driver or hardware detection. Is this fairly
> easy
> >> to set up? THANKS!!!!
> >> Patti :^)
> >>
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