I edit the command line of grub at boot time . I passed some parametres to kernel like below: root=/dev/sda6 video=atyfb:1024x768@60m and I also tried another one: root=/dev/sda6 video=aty128fb:1024x768@60m Both of them didn't show any error messages and the system can start up, but the resolution still no changed. There is an issue happened in my buiding kernel : I hadn't found the driver for my video card. I'm not sure whether it has anything to do with this issue? BTW, my video card information is below: ATI Technologies Inc M92 LP (ATI Radeon 4330 series)