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.
-----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
