Shawn Daniel wrote:
> Aurora does boot, it displays the options but goes no
> further. I see the little penguin with flippers in the
> air, and that is it.
Shawn....I know, you already told me that. I based my
original reply on those facts. :-)
--
Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shoemaker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 10:48 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Aurora
>
> Shawn Daniel wrote:
> > I thought someone had posted something on this before,
> > but I couldn't find it in the archive.
> >
> > I have installed 7.2, it works pretty well (some of it
> > kinda slow though), but the only way I can get into it is
> > with my boot disk. If I use grub to get in, it boots to
> > Aurora and stops. All it ever says is "Booting.....". It
> > never gets any further then that. When I check the other
> > consoles, there are two running and both are locked up.
> > I have no idea where to start. I know that I really
> > don't care for Aurora at all. I would rather just boot
> > in to X....the way my boot disk does.
> >
> > Now when I do a control-alt-delete the box responds and
> > starts shutting down. So does this mean Aurora is REALLY
> > slow and I need to wait even longer?
> >
> > Can someone tell me how to either repair Aurora, where to
> > begin, or how to rid myself of this nuisance.
>
> Shawn....it sounds like the framebuffer resolution
> specified in /etc/lilo.conf is bogus for your system. Boot
> into Linux with the boot floppy you made during
> installation. Sigb in as root and edit /etc/lilo.conf by
> changing any line that starts with:
>
> vga=
>
> and replace whatever appears after the 'equals sign' with
> 'normal', like this:
>
> vga=normal
>
> then save the file and at a command line type:
>
> lilo -v
>
> after lilo is done re-writing itself then log out and
> reboot.
>
> Your system should boot normally without Aurora. If you
> want to experiment wuth getting Aurora to run during boot,
> change the current 3 digit code to another in the 'vga='
> line in /etc/lilo.conf till one works properly. The below
> chart of framebuffer codes will help you in this process:
>
> Colors 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200
> --------+-------+-------+--------+---------+---------
> 256 | 769 771 773 775 796
> 32,768 | 784 787 790 793 797
> 65,536 | 785 788 791 794 798
> 16.8M | 786 789 792 795 799
--
Alan
