Iain Buchanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But first lets see if the basic stuff works... > > ok
Well, I booted successfully but let me clean up something about grub.conf. First, I had forgotten I switched to lilo last time around. Kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1. So quite a while ago. Back then I made the last of several over the past year attempts to get the frambuffer and splash stuff to work. In the nearly two years now that I've used gentoo, I've never gotten its hallmark to work. I've wasted ungodly amounts of time on it several times. Finally just said fsck it and went back to lilo which served me well for 5-6 yrs. But not before I'd done the step thru from docs repeatedly, gotten help here repeatedly etc etc. In the meantime I'd used grub for a year or two and sort of forgot I'd switched back. So cutting to the chase, I booted with lilo under this config. Giving myself several resolutions to try... and a fall back kernel, they all worked. I'm not sure how much of this is really necessary. (I didn't actually test the 1152x1024 but believe it would work ok) Anyway, thanks for the help, I incorporated your suggestions into the kernel line here. boot=/dev/hda #default 1 prompt timeout=50 # vga=0x318 # splashimage=/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz image=/boot/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label=gentoo read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi hdd-ide-scsi video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r1-1152x864 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.14-r2 label=1152x864 read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi hdd-ide-scsi video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" initrd=/boot/initramfs-2.6.14-r2 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.14-r2 label=1152x1024 read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi hdd-ide-scsi video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" initrd=/boot/initramfs-2.6.14-r2 image=/boot/kernel-2.6.14-r2 label=1280x1024 read-only root=/dev/ram0 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda5 hdc=ide-scsi hdd-ide-scsi video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED]" initrd=/boot/initramfs-2.6.14-r2 -- [email protected] mailing list
