[olug] Lilo fixed

Gary mescie at cox.net
Fri Apr 26 20:03:51 UTC 2002 

OK that must be why the line menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw is in my /etc/lilo.conf
file.


"Matthew G. Marsh" wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, David Walker wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> You can also go to /boot and change the symlink for boot.b from
> boot-menu.b (graphical) to boot-text.b (text)
>
> That qwill change lilo so rerun lilo and then reboot. Now in ManDark I do
> not know if that also prevents the graphical bootup. I know it used to in
> Colder-n-a as they triggered off of lilo.
>
> > 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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