[xenpreview-dev] Skip graphical welcome-message of SL/SLES 10

[Jason Douglas]

One additional item: when you boot with stdvga=1, you will want to come
up in runlevel 3.  If you don't, the GUI will try to load and fail, and
load and fail, and load and fail ... etc. with seemingly no end.

>>> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at  9:33 AM, in message
<446C4023.D169.003C.0 at novell.com>,
"Charles Coffing" <ccoffing at novell.com> wrote: 
> We are attempting to get this fixed for the SLES 10 release.  Note
that
> this is only a problem on VT machines, and is due to the real- mode
code
> emulation.
> 
> In the mean- time, however, you can work around this by installing
with
> Standard VGA instead of Cirrus Logic emulation (or, in the config
file,
> set "stdvga=1").
> 
> After installation, you can disable the splash screen in grub.  Once
> that's done, you can re- enable Cirrus Logic support so that your
video
> is faster.
> 
> HTH,
> Chuck
> 
> 
>>>> On Thu, May 18, 2006 at  3:03 AM, in message
> <446C3850.6000200 at godawa.de>,
> Thorolf Godawa <nospam at godawa.de> wrote: 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm trying to install SuSE Linux as unmodified HVM-  guest on SL
> 10.1/Xen 
>> 3.0.2-  9656-  4 (I also tried it with SLES 10 Beta before) but I'm
> even not 
>> able to reach the grub-  menu because the guest hangs already at the

>> graphical preboot welcome-  message (with all the different
> languages)!
>> 
>> How can I skip this graphical preboot welcome-  message or is it
> possible 
>> to create a DVD from the CD-  iso's without this?
>> 
>> Thanks a lot,
> 
> 
> 
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