[OpenIndiana-discuss] Selecting video mode for text mode in OI

[Volker A. Brandt]

>    Has anybody bothered trying larger resolutions (80x50 or so)
> in text-mode OI/illumos/Solaris-x86 outputs? This would help
> in systems debugging a lot :) I guess something of the kind
> could be inherited from GRUB, but my first tests did not get
> it to do the job either :\

I would also be interested in this.  Does the mechanism supported
by Oracle Solaris 11 not work?

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23824_01/html/821-2726/gkkvs.html#gkwvf

I always thought that this is a Grub modification thing and hence 
available openly but I never checked.


Regards -- Volker
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