grub works now but xorg struggles a bit on old box....
Dear Debianists,
I followed the advice of earlier postings concerning fixing my GRUB problem
when installing Etch on an old Gateway 2000 box.
I tried manually partitioning the 13GB drive to put a boot partition at the
start of the disk separate from a root one and a swap partition.
I think this was the advice to help grub to see the drive which is too big
for the old BIOS to see all the sectors on it......
The installer didn't like this. At the end of the partitioning process it
automatically fused the boot partition into the root one making a single
partition. It left the swap partition unchanged.
It did this twice to me and I fought it every way I could but it would let
me keep the partitions I made. It would not go back into guided mode
either.
So I gave up, aborted the installation and rebooted from the floppies and
the CD again. This time when the partitioner came up I chose the guided
option and instead of choosing the standard reverse Marlboro install with
the swap on the end I chose the second option i.e separate /home directory
and the swap in the middle.
I guess you could call it the javelin option.
When I installed this way grub worked...... I guess I was lucky.
Things looked good until I got to xorg. It wouldn't fire up because the old
ATI Mach 64 graphics card driver can't support 24 depth......
The actual error was ATI(0) driver can't support 24 depth....
What does this mean?
Can I find a way around this?
It was nice to see a bang up to date kernel on an ancient box.
Your comments are appreciated.
Regards
Michael Fothergill
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