fd0 not a block device

[pbharris]

clt+alt+F8 should get ya back

[Schotty]

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=5189;start=0#51455 date=1034033787]
clt+alt+F8 should get ya back
[/quote]

He meant f7, f8 wont work

[Pantheus]

<alas again>
Schotty said:

As for your VGA, try going to 16 bpp at 800x600 and see if that helps. Then we can crank it up from there.

I did this, in fact tried 16 bit / 640 x 480 and it locked up tight again, with the colored screens and the only way out was reset.

Now... I tried linux rescue but found no way to get to XF86config or XConfigurator ugh... and even tried urgrading my 8.0 to 8.0 and it wouldn't do that either.

Before I format and reinstall 8.0 I want to see if there is a way (detailed please) to get the current 8.0 install to go back to 15 bits ?

[Schotty]

here is a snippet of my /etc/X11/XF86Config file, right at the bottom --:

Section "Screen"
        Identifier   "Screen0"
        Device       "ATI Rage 128"
        Monitor      "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth    16

        Subsection "Display"
                Depth       16
                Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        EndSubsection

EndSection

Section "DRI"
        Mode 0666
EndSection

Change both modes up a bit to your liking (like just 800x600, DefaultDepth and Depth lines to 15 and you ahould be okay.

[Pantheus]

Schotty,

Thanks for that.... but my problem is that I can't get past linux rescue and there doesn't seem to be any way for me from rescue shell to even get to /etc/X11

I guess I wasn't clear enough, I know how to do it from a terminal but not from the rescue shell

Whenever I boot it goes to the terrible screen colors and locks (with reset being the only way out) and until I can get it to boot into init3 (from rescue) I can't even change the mode

[Schotty]

Okay dude, this is going to be a real easy one.

Whenever you use a boot disk or a rescue option (like RH rescue CD), you will be in the cd's system, not your hard disks'. So wht you need to do in YOUR case here, is at the command prompt, do a :

chroot /mnt/sysimage

now you have made your hard disk the root directory, and cd'ing to /etc/X11/ will give you the right stuff. Then :

exit
exit

will reboot the system safely. Its a bitch until you know how truly simple it is ;D I actually had to do this today, my passwd database got fucked on my workstation. Here the solution was the rescue mode, chroot, and 'passwd user' for each uesr (in case you find yourself into that RARE as hell issue.

Try that. Plus, for the very same reason you have experienced, Slackware and many servers normally boot to runlevel 3, and when the user logs in loads X. Of course you may or may not wish to go that route -- personall taste thing more than anything.