[olug] Lilo fixed

[David Walker]

Ah. Now I think I understand.
If you're using Mandrake it the following might do it.

"In the Mandrake Control Center under Boot > Boot Config there is a menu 
section for "Boot Mode" under which you can unselect Aurora, or at least 
change the format in which it lists what it is doing."
http://www.fatpenguin.com/pipermail/sclug/2001-May/000461.html


On Friday 26 April 2002 02:30 pm, Gary wrote:
> It's not booting directely into X.It's hard to desrcibe what I mean but
> I'll try.By text bootup I mean I get this scrolling by at bootup>
> pr 21 15:03:43 om xfs: xfs startup succeeded
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om anacron[1668]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2002-04-21
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om xfs: listening on port -1
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om anacron: anacron startup succeeded
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om anacron[1668]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om rc: Starting kheader:  succeeded
> Apr 21 15:03:43 om portsentry[1729]: adminalert: Psionic PortSentry 1.1 is
> start
> ing.
> Apr 21 15:03:44 om portsentry: Starting portsentry -atcp:
> succeeded.......with an [OK] folling each line.
>
> Right now I'm getting this for example>starting multiuser mode........on a
> blue screen with some sort of white icon right above it.
> And it does this for every process it starts up at boot.
>
>                     Gary
>
> Nick Walter wrote:
> > Hmmm, I'm not sure what you mean by boot up in text mode.  If you are
> > wanting to avoid X windows and go right to a console login, I'd suggest
> > booting to runlevel 3 and making sure nothing in your inittab or startup
> > scripts is starting X.  I know in Red Hat if you boot to runlevel 5 you
> > end up in X due to X being started in the inittab for runlevel 5.  You
> > can edit the default runlevel in your /etc/inittab file.  It's the line
> > that looks like:
> >
> > id:3:initdefault:
> >
> > The number after 'id:' is what runlevel you are booting to by default.
> > Don't ever set this to 6 or 0.
> >
> > If you mean avoiding the higher resolution console display modes, just
> > remove the vga=788 line from your lilo.conf.
> >
> > Nick Walter
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mesc [mailto:mesc]On Behalf Of Gary
> > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 1:56 PM
> > To: OLUG
> > Subject: [olug] Lilo fixed
> >
> > I finally got my LILO working right by adding the word linear to my
> > /etc/lilo.conf file like so>
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > vga=normal
> > linear
> > default=windows
> > keytable=/boot/us.klt
> > prompt
> > timeout=150
> > message=/boot/message
> > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz
> >         label=linux
> >         root=/dev/hdb5
> >         append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
> >         vga=788
> >         read-only
> > other=/dev/hda1
> >         label=windows
> >         table=/dev/hda
> > other=/dev/fd0
> >         label=floppy
> >         unsafe
> > now can anyone tell me how to get it to boot up in the text mode instead
> > of the graphical mode?It's driving me crazy :)
> >
> >                 Gary
> >
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