On 11/18/2013 08:12 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Dan McGhee wrote: >> You and Bruce are going to have to buy new hardware to check out all of >> this EFI stuff. :) > -ENOSPACE : I bought a new low-end AMD A4 in the spring (for Win 7), > all four positions on my KVM switch are occupied (that box, AMD > Phonon, low-end Sandy Bridge, ppc64). Since you've got Win 7, does that box have EFI firmware? I think I remember from my reading that machines loaded with Win 7 did have EFI firmware and a GPT partition, but they we're configured like an MSDOS-BIOS machine. If my memory serves me correctly, you can play with this EFI stuff. You'll have to configure those other three things to efi though--aha! therein lies the rub! Ooooops. And add your own EFI partition. (chuckle, chuckle) > >> So that I don't have to advertise my "rustiness" with a subject line on >> the list, I've got a really noob question. I can't dredge up the answer >> from the "grey cells." What are the "key presses" to switch between >> terminals in a non-graphic environment? I think ALT-CTRL-F[1-6] takes >> you to different run levels, but what about terminals? Uhoh. I think I >> just remembered something. Am I thinking of ALT-CTRL-F[1-4]? >> > Alt-F[1-6] for terminals. I've not _seen_ runlevel switching like > that, and on icewm I use Alt-Ctrl-Fn to get back to a tty (Alt-F7 to > return to xorg), Alt-F[1-4] in icewm switches desktops. > > ĸen Aaah, that's it! Maybe what I'm remembering is an Xorg thing. I'll re-learn that when it's installed.
And with the kernel options stuff--I added the line: options root=/dev/sda2 video=800x600 ro to the config file for LFS in 'gummiboot' and I got extremely readable messages on boot. So, I've learned four new things and refreshed one old thing working withs you tonight, Ken. Thanks. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
