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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thanks Jim.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Any idea how to assign [at the boot prompt by
pressing <shift> ] a USB jumpdrive to be used for "root="
?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Cordially,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Courtney</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=jim.kinney@gmail.com href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">Jim
Kinney</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ale@ale.org
href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, January 02, 2009 2:53
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ale] scrambled screen
tryin' to boot an Isolinux.iso, huh ?</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Framebuffer is a low-level video thing that writes video bits
to video ram and to the graphics chip. You may need to try some
different video= lines. I don't know isolinux details so you'll have to dig on
their site for specific settings. But I'll bet that something like video=vga
may get you a working screen.<BR><BR>You will need the framebuffer stuff
compiled into the kernel to use it.<BR><BR>AH! You need to spec framebuffer
mode like 788, etc. Knoppix has good details on this.<BR><BR>Found this on <A
href="http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/archive/index.php/t-168922.html">http://www.linuxsir.org/bbs/archive/index.php/t-168922.html</A>:<BR><BR>My
isolinux.cfg looks like this:<BR><BR>timeout 30<BR>prompt 1<BR>display
menu.txt<BR>default 1<BR>label 1<BR>kernel vmlinuz<BR>append
initrd=initrd.gz<BR><BR>label 2<BR>kernel vmlinuz<BR>append initrd=initrd.gz
vga=788<BR><BR>label 3<BR>kernel vmlinuz<BR>append initrd=initrd.gz
vga=791<BR><BR>menu.txt is a simple text file that looks like:<BR><BR>1) Text
Mode<BR>2) 800x600 x 16bit colour<BR>3) 1024x768 x 16bit colour<BR><BR>The
user just enters '1' if they want text mode, 2 for 800x600 and so on.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:52 PM, Courtney Thomas <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net">courtneycthomas@bellsouth.net</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">Attempting
to bootup a live Isolinux iso on a Dell Latitude C810 portable,<BR>I'm
getting a screen scrambled with almost impenetrable horizontal
lines<BR>though I can see the blurred GUI 'behind'.<BR><BR>I'd like to mount
root on a USB jump drive.<BR><BR>What would be a manually entered [at
bootup] command that should<BR>get this thing going, please ?<BR><BR>I've
tried [a guess] of :<BR><BR> /boot/linux append root=/dev/usb0
video=ask panic=10<BR><BR>but get nothing but kernel panics.<BR><BR>By the
way, what's a framebuffer all about ?<BR><BR>Happy New Year
!<BR><BR>Courtney<BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Ale
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clear=all><BR>-- <BR>-- <BR>James P. Kinney III
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