On 04-Aug-99 iam newbie wrote:
> To shorten the story I had to load the source RPM for lilo and found the
> above error message will always display for the vga= prompt if
> NORMAL_VGA is not defined. NORMAL_VGA is not defined anywhere in the
> LILO source. It is defined in /usr/src/linux/include/asm/boot.h I
> added #include <asm/boot.h> to bsect.h and lilo.c This new lilo fixed
> the problem. I noticed there's a new lilo in LM 6.0 updates and I wonder
> if it was also compiled without vga= support.
Yes, the updated LILO package fixes the VGA presetting problem.
> 2. This one is minor. Midnight Commander uses lynx to view html.
> Everytime lynx is executed ither by mc or directly on the command line I
> get an error that metamail cannot open/find tmp files. I uninstalled
> metamail and lynx. I then installed lynx from RH 6.0 and it works
> fine. Could this just be a configuration problem in either LM's
> metamail or lynx.
Lynx is looking for a directory called tmp under your home directory, just make
one (mkdir ~/tmp) and it'll run fine.
-Tom
