Boot up failure

walrus_55 · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:21 pm Post subject: Boot up failure

upon booting into linux through lilo i receive an error

pased an undefined mode number
press <ENTER> ...... or <SPACE> to contine or wait 30seconds

upon pressing space gentoo then loads properly

yemu · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

you probably set the wrong number in option:
vga=xxx in lilo.conf. try vga=1 (as i remember it's 80x25 text mode)

maybe you want to use framebuffer and pass wrong videomode code in vga=xxx (i have vga=0x317 there - 1024x768x16bit - you can find more info here: http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html

also it's possible you don't have appropriate modules compiled

hope it helps
best regards
yemu
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krusty_ar · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:41 pm Post subject:

try putting vga=791 or some other value in the lilo entry (search the forums)
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Guezz-Who · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:43 pm Post subject:

My guess would be that you have selected an invalid vga mode in /etc/lilo.conf ..
Try commenting vga="foo" out using a # .. then write lilo to mbr using the /sbin/lilo command..

Edit: A little slow there, krusty_ar allready posted

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walrus_55 · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 10:50 pm Post subject:

Yeas thanks i just change vga=795 to vga=791 in lilo.conf and it fixed it thanks.