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- From: agc@weasel.demon.co.uk (Alan Charlton)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!weasel.demon.co.uk!agc
- Subject: SLS install problems
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 18:55:44 +0000
- Message-ID: <722397344snx@weasel.demon.co.uk>
- Sender: usenet@gate.demon.co.uk
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- Hi, Linux-hackers!
-
- I'm installing the latest SLS from TSX-11 and I'm having a few problems...
-
- Hardware:
-
- CompuAdd 325sc (386sx/25 - 32K cache)
- 5M ram
- C&T SVGA on motherboard, 512K ram
- 81M IDE disk, partitioned 11M DOS, 29M Linux /, 29M Linux /usr, 12M swap
-
- First of all (and this is prolly a FAQ), when I get the 'Press <return>
- to see SVGA modes', I press return and it goes into 80x50 mode straight
- away. This is annoying; I want 132x44 mode! Is there a simple fix for
- this in the kernel source (because I'm sure to be rebuilding it anyway)..?
-
- Secondly, I have a 2-port serial card which is set up as COM3/4. However,
- I'm not using shared IRQs; instead I'm using IRQ5 for COM3 and IRQ7 for
- COM4 (I don't have any parallel ports installed). On boot-up, Linux says
- that COM3 & 4 are on IRQ4 & 3 respectively - so I'm assuming that this is
- hard-coded into the kernel sources. Is this correct, and is it easy to
- change the IRQ settings in the source code?
-
- Finally, I think I've got a bad a3 disk, because I keep getting FS errors
- when the install script tries to read it. But even so, I don't think I
- should be getting the problem I'm suffering from, which is as follows:
- when I try to boot from floppy with hda2 as root, the initialisation seems
- to go OK until the kernel is read from the HD. At this point, the screen
- fills up with 'child xxx died' ad infinitum, with xxx incrementing each time.
- Is this a symptom of my bad a3 disk, or something more sinister....?
-
- Cheers,
-
- - Alan.
-
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- | Alan Charlton, Bristol, England | If B.U.R.D. doesn't spell Bird |
- | agc@cix.compulink.co.uk | - what the hell does it spell? |
- | agc@weasel.demon.co.uk | |
- | Tel: +44 454 202706 (after 6) | --- W. R. Hearst |
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