----- Forwarded message from David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: David Fokkema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 13:07:32 +0200 To: Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Bug#277491: installation report User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i
On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 01:51:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > David Fokkema wrote: > > I'm sorry I had to put an 'E' at initial boot. There was not a major > > problem, but since we want to promote Debian: the isolinux graphical > > boot screen was severely scrambled to the point that the clueless won't > > know what to do. Of course, he'll try the enter key, but he won't know > > anything about the possible boot options (linux26, for example). This > > machine is about 5 years old and has a Trident Cyberblade i7 on board. > > However, there's nothing wrong with booting linux with vesafb with > > vga=0x315, so I don't really know what went wrong. > > Please describe how it was scrambled, or provide a screenshot. Thanks for your quick response. I hoped for a digital camera but I was unable to lend one. So, for now, I can only describe the screen. With sarge, the debian logo is shown four times (upper left, upper right, lower left and lower right) and slightly slanted. Unfortunately, the logo is split up over these four positions and the pattern doesn't look regular. So, it's not that the first line is upper-left, the next line is upper-right, etc. The result is quite bad: a few lines upper-left, a few lines lower-right, etc. with black between the lines and a slant added to that. However, some portions don't have black between the lines and it seems like the whole block is lower-right or something like that. I know I'm not clear on this, so I'll try harder to borrow a camera. David -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
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