Bug#565160: Linux console garbled after experimental grub-pc boot

[Jonathan Nieder]

Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:09:13AM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

>> This is odd, since the only places I can see that set
>> orig_video_isVGA are
[...]
> You're looking at legacy code.  When using modern 32-bit boot protocol,
> this variable is passed by bootloader.

Oh!  Looking at Documentation/x86/boot.txt now with much interest.

Thanks for the explanation,
Jonathan