On Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:09, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sat 22 Jun 2002 15:59, robin wrote: > > nonfb = non-frame-buffer. Sometimes necessary with older video cards (I > > had to use it for a while - I think it was on my Trdent 3DImage). If > > normal linux is working fine in X, you should never need it. > > And I can add to that, that it uses the lovely black screen (John Rigby so > dislikes) and shows what's starting and what isn't. That way I can collect > info during boot instead of looking at a daft blue line filling the > framebuffer too slowly or at worst stopping halfway. > > Good luck, > Harm
I thought the answer to this one (showing what is starting Ok) was to remove "quiet" in the lilo.conf stanza, then run lilo. -- Michael
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