On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 15:31, Terje Heen wrote:
> Have tried to install mandrake 9.1 for the 5 tile with no success.
> booting from the cd, installing everything and it looks good until I
> reboot.
> Then the machine goes to the login window (still ok) login, pass ok
> then appears the info window regarding starting KDE after some seconds
> it seems that the HD is going "bananas" (writing ,writing ,writing
> ,writing og reading, reading ,reading, reading ) until I turn the
> power off...... Noticed that I got an error message durin boot. :
> Modprobe: Cant locate fb0. please help me someone.....
>  
> Terje.

Terje,

   try this one when lilo comes up push the escape key.  Now boot linux
3 this will boot you into runlevel 3.  If this doesn't work do a normal
boot but don't login.  The do a ctrl-alt-f1 to get to a term window and
login as root then type

# telinit 3

then you will want to vi /etc/lilo.conf  and look for a line like this

vga=788 or vga=791 ....

change it to vga=normal  save and then at the command prompt type lilo
(to reset lilo for your changes.)

this will allow you to boot normal not using frame buffer (fb0 is frame
buffer) reboot the computer and you should notice a "normal" bootup and
the fb0 problem should be gone.  What it seems is that the frame buffer
resolution is not the correct one for what your box can do.  788 is
800x600 791 is 1024x768 and the rest I don't know.  


James

PS  Anyone know how to do the same thing with grub?
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