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Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2000 1:13
PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Aurora
Pardon me for butting in but, how do you edit if
you can't get a konsole. I am only able to log in and get to where the command
line is as "root @localhost". Which editor and how do I get to the correct
file? I'm lost without kedit and it won't work without an xserver running.
Thanks for any help. Dennis M.
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On Behalf Of Alan Shoemaker
Sent: Tuesday, November
21, 2000 12:48 PM
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
