On 1 May, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> Laurent Duperval wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like Mandrake 8.0 uses a frame buffer to boot. I
>> don't want that.
>
> Laurent....click on the desktop icon labled "Mandrake Control
> Center". When the control center has opened it's window
> (probably after you've supplied the root password) then
> expand the tree under "Boot" and choose the option called
> "Boot Config".
>
> In the upper right corner of the resulting window there will
> be a button called "Configure" click on it and a sub-window
> will open. Choose the radio button marked "LILO with text
> menu".
>
> Then click on the button labled "Advanced". In the
> scrolling list for the setting, "Video mode" scroll to the
> very bottom and choose the selection "Normal". Now click on
> the "OK" button and the sub-window will close. Finally click
> on the main window's "OK" button and you're done. The next
> time you power up or re-boot you should boot in text mode.
I'd done that already and it doesn't work. The LILO screen is text but the
entire boot sequence is still in graphical mode. I hear my multi-sync monitor
mode-switch (it clicks) after I select "linux" from the LILO screen.
Normally, I'm supposed to get
LILO boot:
when LILO starts. Now I get some gibberish:
!(@*TBASD boot:
where the first part is composed of smiley faces and stuff. Then, after I
hit Return, the graphical stuff starts. There is a big "Welcome" banner at
the top of the screen and at the bottom there is the normal status display
that appears at boot time. This is the part I don't want.
Wait a minute.....
What if....
Ok, now to reboot.....
Y E S !!!! HOUSTON WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!!
The video mode for the linux entry in LILO was set to 794 so setting the other
value to text had no real effect. Now I've got everything back to normal,
almost.
The only thing I want now, is to set the default font of the consoles to a
smaller font. I liked the way the text looked in mode 794. There weas a lot
more information on the screen than there is at 80x25. What the best way to
test new console fonts? I thought linuxconf had that in 7.2 but it doesn't
look like it in 8.0.
Thanks,
L
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Laurent Duperval <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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