Re: Messed up my rc.d/rc.6...badly

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 08:32:20 +0700
Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <[email protected]> wrote:

> >   Anyone mind sending me a copy of their plain, stock rc.6 file please?
> > Somehow or another, mine got messed up and now my system won't shut down
> > and I have to hit a hard reset to reboot, this is naturally hard on the
> > file system.
> 
> Attached
> 

  Thanks for that, Willy. It seems to have fixed my shutdown and is back to
  normal.

> >   Also, does anyone know where I can set the video mode for setup during
> > boot? I keep getting to a screen that tells me 'Undefined video mode
> > number: 316' and has after that a sentence telling me to either hit 'enter'
> > and choose the mode I want (I usually use 318 or u...318==u) or to wait a
> > few seconds and it starts on its own and goes into some stock mode.
> >
> >   Do I change this in lilo.conf and if so, where?
> 
> Yes, it's on /etc/lilo.conf
> it's on vga line
> 
> 

  I entered 318 at the vga line and hopefully it will work. Unfortunately
  there's a whole new problem...

  Rebooting does as it's supposed to *except* when it comes to the point where
  it says it's checking the bios data. For some reason now, the dots only
  expand on one line (when before this problem the dots would expand to one and
  two-thirds lines), and the sentence of 'BIOS data check is okay' (or
  something like that) shows up and then all I get is a black screen. Nothing
  happens anymore, whereas one expects the login screen (I have it set up for
  the kde graphical login screen).

  Any ideas what happened? I've not changed anything other than the rc.6 (which
  now works as it should) and the lilo.conf to have 'vga=318' (no quotes) and
  of course as root did the 'lilo' command. I got something real strange when I
  did that though:

root@oogah:~# lilo
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Warning: Unable to determine video adapter in use in the present system.
Warning: Video adapter does not support VESA BIOS extensions needed for
  display of 256 colors.  Boot loader will fall back to TEXT only operation.
Added Slackware *
Added SlackwareTOO
3 warnings were issued.

  Any idea how or why this is happening and how to fix it? It still does it
  when I put the vga=791 back in lilo.conf.

  Thanks for any assistance.