James Sparenberg wrote:
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?
I am not sure what you mean by the same thing *but* when you get the grub menu, the default is highlighted. Move to the entry you want to boot or leave it at default and press 'e' to edit the entry (this is one of the instructions that come with the menu screen). The first line will be highlighted and this is the one that contains vga=788, on my menu, anyway. Press 'e' again to edit that line or move to the line you want to edit and press 'e'. You can now add, delete, or change entries for that line. When you are done editing, press 'Enter' to accept the edit, edit another line, if you want, then type 'boot' and press 'Enter' to boot the edited entry. This is handy to try different kernel options without editing files. Also handy if you can't boot because of a typo in the menu or some wrong reference/syntax. I don't know if lilo has such a feature. If the change is what you want, edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it permanent. No need to reinstall grub.
If you're asking if vga=normal is proper grub syntax, I have never used it *but* here is an archive that says it is:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg40532.html
Rolf
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