Out of necessity to have a working system ASAP, I installed Ubuntu
which has the same problem, but does all the installation from the
blue screen which I can see. Now when I boot up, the screen goes
blank when GRUB should appear, and stays blank until the graphical
part of the boot-up. I will try
Levi Waldron wrote:
[...] I ran the "stable" install disc again,
specifying "linux vga=ask" at the boot prompt. It offered me the
choice to scan all available vesa modes, and *nothing* showed up on my
screen during the scan.
This seems to be equivalent to a bug that has been reported and
resolv
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 23:00:20 +
"Levi Waldron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 2006/3/24, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > it probably is booting. you've got the wrong video mode for your setup. you
> > should probably specify vga=ask in the kernel line of your boot also, this
> >
2006/3/24, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> it probably is booting. you've got the wrong video mode for your setup. you
> should probably specify vga=ask in the kernel line of your boot also, this
> seemed appropriate:
>
> http://72.14.203.104/search?q=cache:iz_Ho_51kzoJ:www.linux-mag
On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:26:39 +
"Levi Waldron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At least, I think that's what the problem is after installing lilo on
> on the the HD partitions, by booting a live CD then using chroot.
> liloconfig gave me the following warning:
>
> Warning: Unable to determine vi
At least, I think that's what the problem is after installing lilo on
on the the HD partitions, by booting a live CD then using chroot.
liloconfig gave me the following warning:
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
(nb. I wasn't actually able to follow through
Levi Waldron wrote:
By the way, I just tried re-installing grub from a chroot environment
within the liveCD environment, then comparing the new MBR with the one
that I couldn't boot from. They're identical, so I don't think the
bios is overwriting my MBR.
I wish I'd read that before going afte
I've also noticed that the hard drive light goes on for a while after
the screen goes black when GRUB should have appeared, so I wonder if
the OS is booting but there's a problem with the video card? I don't
know why the video could work fine for everything including liveCDs
and installation discs
By the way, I just tried re-installing grub from a chroot environment
within the liveCD environment, then comparing the new MBR with the one
that I couldn't boot from. They're identical, so I don't think the
bios is overwriting my MBR.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
[EMAIL PROTECT
I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz,
ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce
video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had
when I bought it.
I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and
re-pa
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