The LAN card issue has been a common problem, though it didn't strike
me. And you are correct that LILO is using an ANSI graphics menu
system. 'man lilo' and 'man lilo.conf' didn't get me anywhere as to why
it now does this and how to suppress it.
Larry Marshall wrote:
>
> Since nobody knows nuttin' about the C++ standard libary, I'll try
> another one.
>
> Tonight I decided to setup LM7.2 on another drive where I normally work
> with 7.1. Not problem in theory but a couple things popped up and I
> wonder if anyone else has had these problems.
>
> During the install 7.2 decided that it couldn't detect my ethernet card,
> though it's worked just peachy with 7.0 and 7.1. I'll work that out but
> it seems odd.
>
> More important, 7.2 LILO seems to be going graphical :-( and my machine
> doesn't seem to like that any more than I do. If I try to boot without a
> floppy, I get the most "interesting" screen of 1s and 0s that just scroll
> continously. This takes place BEFORE I get any boot choices so I'm
> assuming that it's dear old lilo that's providing this show. If I boot
> from the floppy I made during the installation I get a "nifty" red menu
> with linux as a single option and it boots me into 7.2 and all is well
> with the graphics. Anyone else see this?
>
> Cheers --- Larry
