> The wiki gives the following instructions to modify /lib/vgadb: > ramfs > ed /lib/vgadb
> If you select Boot at startup, you aren't given write permission to > /lib/vgadb, and as a result, these instructions can't be followed. If > you select Install at startup, you can do this just fine. However, > executing "ramfs" produces the following output: '/bin/boot' file does > not exist. Luckily you don't even need the temporary filesystem, > because a write to /lib/vgadb works just fine. If this behavior is > how it should be, the wiki should be changed, but I will wait on that > until it's decided what the desired behavior is. The ramfs is for ed's /tmp files, not /lib/vgadb. I think on the boot floppy /tmp is not writable. > The following is just a suggestion. When Install is selected, a few > files are missing from /bin. One of them is p. If a user is forced > to exist in a pre-install text screen, this would be a big help in > reading files. There are a lot of files missing from bin. It's hard to get them all onto a floppy image, which is what you're booting off of when you choose install. > The last is in regards to my video card. When I boot and select the > vga monitor, I am taken to a vga screen running an extremely slowly > printing and responding terminal, and the mouse cursor is a distorted > image. When started by answering vga as the monitor, the vga terminal > (slowly) prints messages resembling "idle stat 172 put 177 scr > f02f18a4 F0162156". I can instead pick none for the monitor and start > the vga screen with aux/vga, the result being the same slow terminal, > but without the idle messages. This means that the video acceleration in the kernel isn't driving your card quite right and is timing out. If you echo hwaccel off >/dev/vgactl this will go away. Doing it before running aux/vga is easiest. Another solution should be to run with monitor=vesa. I doubt your cursor shows up either, but that's not related. I fixed the cursor code in the native nvidia driver just now (I think). Running with monitor=vesa will avoid this bug too. Russ
