Re: Bloody alpha ignorant

[Falk Hueffner <falk.hueffner@student.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> writes:

> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 03:55:06PM +0200, Falk Hueffner wrote:
> > Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> writes:
> > 
> > > Is there any way of starting the installation process in b/w (black
> > > and white)? We only have a shitty, old, burned-in monitor that doesn't
> > > show these stylish colors :)
> > 
> > Yes, pass the kernel argument "mono". To do so, boot with -fl i, and
> > modify the arguments of entry nr. 3 to add "mono".
> > 
> > (I should probably document that, too, somewhere...)
> 
> If I do that, the machine doesn't boot.
> I use:
> "l"
> to list the kernels and their parameters, then I copy the line for "3"
> and use
> 
> b <kernel, ramdisk, etc.> mono
> 
> the kernel is loaded and then I'm greeted with a black screen...

Hmm, bad. Please file a bug report (I cannot check this right now).

-- 
	Falk


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