I want to set up video mode 6Ah (vesa mode 102h) in my boot loader, but i do not want to check if VBE are supported. is it possible to find out if a video mode was set up? AFAIK, INT 10h doesn't return anything, even CF isn't set if desired video mode is not supported...
The only thing that comes to my mind is to make routines that output messages with word wrap, and routines that draw ASCII frames (windows) with dynamic width control (for example to draw frame on 2/3 of the screen). If mode 6Ah cannot be set, then standard mode 3 will be used. I decided to make simple text mode user interface (but with high resolution) in boot loader, rather than GUI that will need much more resources and make my boot loader bulky. Thanks for any ideas...

heh, the solution is obvious...

mov ax, 006Ah
int 10h
mov ah, 0Fh
int 10h
cmp al, 6Ah
jz @f
mov ax, 3
int 10h
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