fbdev - boot parameter question

Hi,
I am developing a mini linux CD distro (movix.sf.net) and I would like to set up the boot in the following way: by default the CD should boot with the vesa FB support on, but for those cards for which the vesa FB fails the kernel should switch _automatically_ to the standard setting it would use if it had started with the "video=vesa:off" boot parameter. What I get now when vesa FB fails to load is instead the kernel prompt asking the user to choose among all available console modes, and I would be very happy if I could avoid that.

I looked in the LILO HOWTO and in the BootPrompt HOWTO and in the bootparam man page but could not find any way to do this.
Any hint would be welcome. If there is no parameter available, can you at least let me know which file should I change to set the standard linux console mode as the default in case the vesa FB load fails?

Please, CC any answer to my mail address since I am not subscribed to the ML.

Thanks,
Roberto De Leo

Do you really need the "video=vesa:off" boot parameter? If no VESA graphics mode was activated by the boot loader, vesafb will not start. If your kernel contains both vesafb and vgacon, it will fall back to VGA text mode.

This is not the kernel prompt, but the prompt of your bootloader. So you should modify your bootloader to not ask you for a mode if the wanted VESA graphics mode is not available, but to continue with VGA text.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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