On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:33 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:02:27AM +0100, Louis Davies wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I ended the building of LFS-6.7 but I noted some troubles. > > I start by saying that I did non install grub but for compatibility with > the > > distribution of the host which is Slackware 12.2 I installed lilo and for > > obvious reasons installed also bin86 and nasm. > > An other thing is that I am not sure to have mounted the virtual file > > systems in Chapters 7 and 8. > > When I choose LFS at boot the box stops and presents the following > response: > > > > BIOS data check successful > > Undefined video mode number: 305 > > Press <ENTER> to see video modes available, <SPACE> to continue, or > > wait 30 sec > > > > If I wait 30 sec or hit the spacebar there is a regular boot process but > > with very big characters. > > > > I don't understand at all what is the source of video mode 305. > > I am asking myself if I can go forward or I have to go back and repeat > all > > the actions of Chapter 7, 8, and 9. > > > > What do you think about this situation? > > > > Best greetings > > > > Louis > > I think your lfs kernel's .config is b0rken! Or, more likely, you > are passing an anchronistic parameter to the kernel (in lilo.conf, > perhaps vga=305). > > As a long-time lilo adherent I've (somewhat reluctantly) moved to > grub2 on my desktops, but I very much doubt that lilo is the > problem. > > If you have a video= or vga= parameter in lilo.conf, please try > editing that file to include an extra version for your LFS kernel > *without* that line (e.g. call them LFS-6.7 and LFS-6.7a : whatever > fits with what you have done so far). > > 305 ought to be a 1024x768 vga mode (maybe only with the VESA > driver - on most modern harware, people will NOT want that). > Perhaps you are using a framebuffer for LFS ? Perhaps you have a > screen / panel of 1024x768 but you selected a 12x22 font ? > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Hi, as you can see in the attached file, lilo.conf does not contain any line with 305 and the active mode is 773 which is a coherent value for my display whose resolution is 1024 x 768. So I think the problem derives from a different inconvenience, perhaps .config. Can I try to repeat all the process of kernel installation or have I to go back more? Greetings Louis
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