Re: missing X

On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:37:24AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote:
> According to Harmon Seaver,
> > Finally got the 2.18.x bootldr on my 3765 and got intimate installed, it
> > seemed to go pretty well, but when I rebooted, I just get a blank X screen with
> > an "X" in the middle, I can move it around with the stylus, but nothing else.
> > From the serial console, I can log in okay. Running /etc/init.d/x stop, then
> > start, I see that it's looking for a few things it's not finding, like blackbox
> > and a number of other things, including fonts. There was plenty of room, why did
> > it not install everything?
> > And how do I fix it?
>
> Could you post how you got this far? I got stuck myself a
> while ago :( . I have the exact same model you do.

   I just but the zimage and intrd on the first small (35meg) vfat partition,
dropped back to 2.18.x bootldr, and booted the vfat partition from the
bootloader then (from the serial console) ran intimate-install.
   Where did you get stuck? I couldn't get it to boot at all with the 2.20.4
bootldr.

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Harmon Seaver	
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