Comment 22 for bug 147250

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Przemek K. (azrael) wrote : Re: Alternate install CD (both x86, AMD64) not booting on HP NX6325, HP 6510b and HP 2510p

Comment from Debian bug:
> As the VESA framebuffer _does_ work (I've tried both vga=788 and vga=791),
> a better option would seem to be to just use the VESA framebuffer for all
> x86 installs by using e.g. vga=788, which is 800x600/16 bits.
> vga=788 is the same setting we use for the graphical installer and I can't
> remember (m)any reports that that setting did not work for users.
>
> We could still keep the vga16fb as a fallback if people explicitly boot
> with VGA=normal.