ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To boot THNX when you can't boot USB. > 1. Put the hard drive back in your laptop (sorry!) > 1a. start it booting from the hard drive > 1b. wait for it too boot. > 1c. Hang on > 1d. not yet. > 1e. almost there > 1f. running init scripts > 1g. ... > 1h. You can get lower interest rates now at ... > 1i. OK, log in. > 2. mount the usb stick e.g. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt > 3. mkdir /boot/thnx > 4. cp /mnt/boot/* /boot/thnx > 5. Add the following line to /boot/grub/menu.lst > title tiny horrible NOT xen -- sdb1 > root (hd0,0) > kernel /boot/thnx/vmlinuz-2.6.23-rc5 ro root=LABEL=/THNX rhgb vga=ask > \ > reserve_vector=64 > init=/bin/bash > initrd /boot/thnx/initrd-2.6.23-rc5.img > > Reboot and select tiny horrible etc. to boot. > > ron
So I tried that and was indeed able to boot, but I didn't get any high resolution video mode options, just stuff like 80x60. Am I doing something wrong, or is it just my bad luck that my video card isn't supported? I've got a GeForce FX 5900XT video card. John Floren
