Want modeset in 15.0 test

[root]

I installed 15.0 on a spare partition and I want to
play with it while leaving the rest of the machine
still running 14.2. I boot in from the install disk

huge.s root=/dev/sdc1 initrd= ro vga=791

but I want modeset to switch the font. It seems
that the command runs with no modeset. How can
I set modeset to be the default?

Thanks.

If memory serves me, earlier versions of slackware
did not require a space between rdinit= and the ro.
Am I wrong about that?

[Henrik Carlqvist]

Post by root
huge.s root=/dev/sdc1 initrd= ro vga=791
If memory serves me, earlier versions of slackware did not require a
space between rdinit= and the ro.
Am I wrong about that?

My guess is that you remember the boot line wrong. In the bootline above
you tell your kernel to use /dev/sdc1 as your root file system. As you
have a root file system you do not need any initrd which would have been
a compressed cpio archive containing your root file system. The "ro"
argument simply tells your kernel to initially mount your root file
system read only and does not in any way belong to the initrd variable.

If I remember right, the name of the compressed cpio archive is
initrd.img on the Slackware installation media.

regards Henrik

[root]

Post by Henrik Carlqvist
My guess is that you remember the boot line wrong. In the bootline above
you tell your kernel to use /dev/sdc1 as your root file system. As you
have a root file system you do not need any initrd which would have been
a compressed cpio archive containing your root file system. The "ro"
argument simply tells your kernel to initially mount your root file
system read only and does not in any way belong to the initrd variable.

Thanks for responding Henrik. I am sure you are right: my memory problem.

I see from /proc/cmdline when booting from the install disk that
nomodeset is hard-wired into the boot command.