Quote Originally Posted by A. Jorge Garcia
OK, that's a new cheat code on me! What does vga=0 do, text mode a la KNOPPIX 2?
Almost. vga=0 is the same as vga=normal. So, boot: knoppix vga=0 is identical to boot: knoppix-txt. In fact, if you look at the boot/isolinux/isolinux.cfg on the CD file you'll see that the two boot stanzas only differ in their vga= settings, with the default vga setting being 791. The vga= cheatcode sets the vga "mode", with common values in the range 0-8 and 784-795 (among others). In contrast, boot: knoppix 2 sets the init runlevel to 2, which happens to be a text-mode runlevel. Common runlevels are 0-6 (among others.)

For more information on the vga= setting, have a look in the kernel documentation (/usr/share/linux*/Documentation/svga.txt). For more information on runlevels, 'man init'.

Regards,
- Robert
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