Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

[Ken Moffat <ken@kenmoffat.uklinux.net>]

On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote:

>
> $ cd /etc/init.d
> $ grep -i font *
> [...]
> console-screen.sh:      echo -n "Setting up general console font..."
> [...]
>
> That looks like the script you'll have to look into. Maybe it tries to
> set a font defined in /etc/console-tools/config that is not
> supported/available.
> But first make backups of all the files you change.
>

[snip]
That's useful.
> >
> >  Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way.
>
> ;-)
> I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter
> 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root
> parition read-write and try to fix it.
>
>       -Thomas
>
 Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all* of the
bootargs when you run `setenv', then do not run savenv, go straight to
`bootd'.

Thanks for the clarification, Thomas.

Ken
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