Hi. While playing with mozilla-mplayer this morning (still trying to find some way to get FIFA videos playing on my box ... Long story), it locked up the video card hard. Couldn't even get to a text console. Great! Time to test out grml. :-)
Hardware is a Compaq Deskpro PIII-733, 0.5 Gb RAM, 10 Gb HD on /dev/hda, 2 Gb HD on /dev/hdc, 52x32x52 CD-RW on /dev/hdd. Video is on-board i810 with 4 Mb RAM.
grml's lovely, or what I saw of it is. Nothing I did would go anywhere near a framebuffer console. "grml-info" replies:
Could not initialize graphics driver fb: Cannot open /dev/fb0.
"fbset 1024x768-70" replies:
open /dev/fb0: no such file or directory
I tried boot options grml lapic vga=791 vga=normal vga=ask fb1024x768
and no joy. Surely I'll find a simple answer in the FAQ, I know. Other things to note include:
- on the F9 boot prompt page:
"Notice: you this bootoption with care!"
s/you/use/
- dmesg reports:
VFS: can't find an ext2 filesystem on /dev/hda
which is a little odd as I'm using it to type this. :-) After fiddling with grml a bit, I also tried the new gparted-livecd-0.2.5-1.iso I downloaded recently. It found all my ptns on both disks.
So, now I'll head off to grml.org and see what the FAQ has to say, but nice job grml guys! I'm looking forward to my next reboot to play with it some more. Have a marvy weekend! :-)