yaboot: text mode or graphics mode?

sumedh tirodkar sumedhtirodkar at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:31:58 EST 2009


Isn't there any other way that i can access the VGA registers? So as
to reconfigure them...

-Sumedh

On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:15 AM, Matt Sealey <matt at genesi-usa.com> wrote:
> sumedh tirodkar wrote:
>>
>> I just found out that openfirmware boots into graphics mode(non-text
>> mode). Now i wish to switch back to text mode. how do i do this?
>
> Unfortunately unless you are running some kind of yaboot-accessible or
> firmware-accessible x86 BIOS emulation, this isn't possible.
>
> --
> Matt
>



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