fedora-list digest, Vol 1 #167 - 26 msgs

[Richard E Miles]

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>Subject: Re: graphical boot loader
>From: Gerry Tool <gstool at earthlink.net>
>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 15:41:58 -0600
>Reply-To: fedora-list at redhat.com
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>On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 15:22, Richard E Miles wrote:
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>>I am having problems getting the new graphical boot of yarrow working. I 
>>upgraded from RedHat 9. Following the advise in the relase notes I 
>>installed rhgb from disk 1 and added rhgb to the command line in the 
>>grub grub.conf kernel line thus: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.22115.nptl ro 
>>root=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb.
>>When I reboot I still get a text based bootloader response. What am I 
>>doing wrong?
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>Your kernel ID in the line shown above should be 2115, not 22115.  That
>is probably just a typo in your post, not a copy from the grub.conf.
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>You can also check that you have GRAPHICAL=yes.
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>  From /etc/sysconfig/init:
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> # anything else => new style bootup without ANSI colors or positioning
> BOOTUP=color
> # Turn on graphical boot
> GRAPHICAL=yes
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>Gerry
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You are right about the misstyping 22115 for 2115 in the kernel line, 
however my /etc/sysconfig/init does contain those lines. There must be 
someting else that I did not do correctly.
thank, Dick