passing underfined mode on install

xtlosx

hey guys, i have an old machine here i'm trying to get gentoo on just to play around wtih, it's a 200mhz box, nothing special but should be enough to get command line running, yea i know emerge's will take days but i'm not worried

nothing critical.

i'm trying to install gentoo and it's complaining about me passing an undefined mode.. the video card is a cheesey pci vga card.... i try to go to the modes, i do scan, and it just goes back to the same screen looks like it does nothing... how would i go about getting around this because later on in the install it fails all over with the splashscreen and what not... any ideas?

cyrillic · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject:

If your video card can't handle the fancy framebuffer video modes that the LiveCD tries to use, this is no big deal. Try booting with the "gentoo-nofb" kernel instead of the default "gentoo" one.

xtlosx · Posted: Sat Jan 14, 2006 8:26 pm Post subject:

woohoo! i knew there had to be a way to get around the splash screen, knew you guys wouldn't have excluded these old machines

now i get to sit back and play call of duty 2 on the xbox360 all day as this thing compiles, well actually more like all weekend

thanks man!!!! cheers!

edit:

ahhh damn something must be wrong with this box, i dont know what it is, it gets like right to install when i do net-setup it bitches about hda having problems or something.... so i tried another hard drive and it says the same thing and i know for a fact the HD is just fine...... but this machine had run slackware for over a year not too long ago without any problems, is gentoo really picky with hardware? or am i just retarded, i got a gentoo box runnin' at school without any problems, and might i say, EMERGE OWNS