On Monday 19 November 2001 08:55, Douglas J Hunley enunciated: > grub can be installed from source easily enough. no need to use lilo. > however, SuSE uses a funky video mode in their kernel, and a patched > version of lilo to get the pretty boot-up stuff. but you can live without > all that. I do.
Thanks for the patch. I presume that re the video you are talking the boot "Ubeaut" screens and not the normal video modes that are used after boot. > > me about 5 hrs to get back in. What significance does initrd have in > > suse, can it be ignored or is it 'needed'............... Are there any > > caveats > > I don't use initrd for any of my kernels (custom compiled from source0. Fine, looks like its a 7.3 problem then, maybe > > BTW I am using 7.3 and there are differences with it and 7.2 > > many, I've heard I am getting disenchanted with suse, more and more, vmware cannot use sound as dsp is busy, xine, mtv have no sound whilst vlc does have a very muted sound on dvd and vcd playback. -- Keith Antoine aka 'skippy' 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061 Australia PH:61733002161 Retired Geriatric, Sometime Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
