On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
ok, i'll do that, but i'm still concerned about resolving
the
issue i described earlier -- during firstboot, the display was
clearly configured incorrectly so that i couldn't even see the
buttons in the lower right.
if i want to test that again, what's the proper way to force
re-running firstboot upon reboot? i can see the setting in
/etc/sysconfig/firstboot, and also being able to run "chkconfig" on
it. is there an approved way of simply asking to run it again at
boot time? thanks.
as a short followup, i tweaked the above two properties to force a
firstboot run at the next boot and, sure enough, upon reboot, the
display setting was still screwed to the point where i still can't see
anything down in the lower right and that's probably why at least
*some* of my settings weren't correct after booting -- because i
simply had no idea what i was answering as i went from screen to
screen.
this seems like a fairly serious show-stopper -- and it seems like
it would be independent of any video selection for the install itself.
even when the install worked fine, it's the firstboot that *seemed* to
select a resolution of 2080x800 for a 1280x800 display, making a lot
of each screen inaccessible.
suggestions? i'm willing to run some tests. the video card is an
ATI Radeon Xpress 200M, and i have a *long* history with ATI driver
grief.
rday
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