Re: [newbie] init level 3 and odd screen display

2004-11-03 Thread cervixcouch
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:33, cervixcouch wrote: I went into /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel to 3. Now when I boot up, the non-graphical login prompt appears and the upper 8/10ths of the screen is black, but the bottom portion has the blue background that appears

[newbie] init level 3 and odd screen display

2004-11-02 Thread cervixcouch
I went into /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel to 3. Now when I boot up, the non-graphical login prompt appears and the upper 8/10ths of the screen is black, but the bottom portion has the blue background that appears during runlevel 5 startup and I can see the word Mandraklinux with a star

Re: [newbie] init level 3 and odd screen display

2004-11-02 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 15:33, cervixcouch wrote: I went into /etc/inittab and changed the runlevel to 3. Now when I boot up, the non-graphical login prompt appears and the upper 8/10ths of the screen is black, but the bottom portion has the blue background that appears during runlevel 5

[newbie] init script

2002-07-25 Thread chuck
I have a shell script that I want to be run at boot time. How can I do this? TIA -Chuck Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [newbie] init script

2002-07-25 Thread et
On Thursday 25 July 2002 07:30 pm, you wrote: I have a shell script that I want to be run at boot time. How can I do this? TIA -Chuck if the question isin dos I would have put this batch file script in autoexec.bat to get it loaded each boot, is there something like that for linux? then

[newbie] Init process

2001-08-28 Thread Caruso Aldo
Hi, After installing InterBase for Linux in Mandrake 8.0, I would like to make it a service that runs as start up. It's not clear to me where should I put the initialization command (as if it were an autoexec.bat, excuseme for the old DOS slang). Should I put it in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Re: [newbie] Init process

2001-08-28 Thread Michael D. Viron
At 01:08 PM 08/28/2001 -0300, you wrote: Hi, After installing InterBase for Linux in Mandrake 8.0, I would like to make it a service that runs as start up. It's not clear to me where should I put the initialization command (as if it were an autoexec.bat, excuseme for the old DOS slang).

[newbie] INIT: ld mo respawning too fast: disabled for...

1999-12-10 Thread Andrew Foreman
Greetings, I'm using kernal ver. 2.2.9-19mdk on an i586 On boot and occassionaly thereafter I see this error message on my console: INIT: ld "mo" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes. Not knowing what an "mo" is I grep'd the inittab and it looks like it's my modem. $ grep 'mo'

Re: [newbie] init=?

1999-09-20 Thread Richard Adams
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am

Re: [[newbie] init=?]

1999-09-20 Thread Michael Scottaline
Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up

Re: [newbie] init=?

1999-09-20 Thread terry
the file is called /etc/inittab... there should be a line like: id:5:initdefault you can change the 5 to a 3 for multiuser - Original Message - From: John Aldrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 20, 1999 2:11 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] init=? On Mon

Re: [[newbie] init]

1999-09-20 Thread David M. Kufta
On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, Michael Scottaline wrote: Jim Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know

Re: [newbie] init

1999-09-20 Thread Jim Howarth
Sorry, I wasn't in front of the machine in question at the time of the message. It is "Kernel Panic: no init found" My inittab has the proper entry and to my lilo config is fine i'm assuming. (attached) Any ideas? On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, John Aldrich wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 1999, you wrote: I

[newbie] init=?

1999-09-20 Thread Jim Howarth
I seem to be getting a kernal error on bootup. For some reason its telling me I need to provide an init number. I would assume this would be 3 as I want it to go multiuser, but unfortunately, I don't know where to put this. I've buggered something up and am now quite confused.. :) I'm using

[newbie] init and colorlevel

1999-09-13 Thread R. David Whitlock
Thanks to Ken, Steve, Matt, and others for their assistance with that last one. Amazing how stupid mistakes make everything harder. I kept editing the wrong monitor section and couldn't understand why it wasn't working. Later, David "Without the Law, there is no Liberty. Without Justice,

[newbie] init and colorlevel

1999-09-12 Thread R. David Whitlock
OK, so normally to get into x after rebooting, I put in the following parameters because any lower color depths make it look ugly startx -- -bpp 16 And I have that aliased as just "x" so that after getting in, i just do that and boom I'm in. Now I'd like to leave it in runlevel 5 because I'm

Re: [newbie] init and colorlevel

1999-09-12 Thread Steve Philp
"R. David Whitlock" wrote: OK, so normally to get into x after rebooting, I put in the following parameters because any lower color depths make it look ugly startx -- -bpp 16 And I have that aliased as just "x" so that after getting in, i just do that and boom I'm in. Now I'd like

Re: [newbie] init and colorlevel

1999-09-12 Thread mas9483
On 12 Sep, R. David Whitlock wrote: How can I either start the runlevel 5 to use the correct color depth, or make it so X's default is _always_ 16? Edit /etc/X11/XF86Config. Scroll to the bottom and look for a section like this: # The accelerated servers (S3, Mach32, Mach8, 8514, P9000, AGX,

[newbie] Init problem

1999-07-07 Thread Alejandro Lopez Osornio
My new mandrake instalation over a partition of a win95 system, boot welll util it gets to the init process and says somthing about rc.d an then starts sayin "can't find mingatty in /sbin/" or something like that, later says ta is respwning too fast and will wait 5 minutes, later restart doing