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On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 14:36 -0400, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> 1) Early in the boot process I get an error message saying I "passed an |
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> undefined mode number", then it asks me to choose a console mode |
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> (80x24, etc.) What do I need to do to have it pick one without |
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> asking me? |
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Does your monitor support 1024x768? Also, did you enable framebuffer |
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support in your kernel? |
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> 2) It then asks me what keymap I want; what do I need to do to have it |
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> just choose the default keymap? |
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You need to edit the x86-archscript.sh file and remove "dokeymap" from |
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the options. |
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The keymap selection times out after 10 seconds, I believe. |
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> 3) It then can't find /etc/mtab, and I get this: |
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> >> Booting.warning: can't open /etc/mtab: No such file or directory |
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> .. |
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> Segmentation fault |
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> *: Failed to unmount the initrd! |
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> INIT: version 2.84 booting |
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> then it appears to continue properly, but this doesn't look good. |
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> Ideas as to this? /etc/mtab is supposed to be managed by mount, I |
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> thought... why isn't it here? And what's dumping core? |
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Bug #79218 |
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> 4) Then it tries to start devfsd but can't find /sbin/devfsd. What I |
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> really want is to run udev on here, not devfs. Thoughts on this? |
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Did you use livecd/devmanager: udev? |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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