Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

2006-03-25 Thread Levi Waldron
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

Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

2006-03-24 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
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

Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

2006-03-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
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 > >

Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

2006-03-24 Thread Levi Waldron
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

Re: bootloaders selecting wrong video adapter [was: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation]

2006-03-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
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

RE: Bootloaders

1998-09-22 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Ulysses, On 22-Sep-98 Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to "modify" > command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want: > > nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none > ^ >