Starting Zeta from the LILO bootmanager

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Starting Zeta from the LILO bootmanager

If your machine includes unsupported hardware that causes problems for Zeta, you need to enter the boot options menu.

If it turns out that you need to invoke one of these options every time you boot (which is rare), you can make these options permanent. In Zeta, look in /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/sample and you'll find the following files:

- ata.sample
- atapi.sample
- awe64 kernel.sample
- vesa.sample

Each of them includes various options relating to the boot-time parameters. You should be able to determine what each of them do by opening them in a text editor. If you want to activate one of the options in these files, copy it to /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers and uncomment (remove the "#") any lines you want to activate.

kernel.sample includes options mirroring the choices shown in the boot options menu, while the others will let you configure specific sound card settings, set vesa modes for graphics cards, and set advanced options for ATA and ATAPI devices. You can also use the virtual_memory file to establish a swap file of a smaller or larger size than the GUI Virtual Memory preferences panel will allow. Note that setting your swap file to a lower size than recommended will probably impact performance, and is not recommended.

For unsupported graphic cards yellowTAB has developed a VESA Configuration tool that lets you easily set the Resolution and Depth of color through pop down menus:

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You can choose between the following resolutions:

Resolution: |  | Monitor Size:
640 x 480 |  | 14" or less
800 x 600 |  | 15"
1024 x 768 |  | 17"

And you can choose between having 256 colors or thousands of colors.

By pressing OK, the tool will create the file /boot/home/config/settings/kernel/drivers/vesa

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