No screen found on CD Boot

[Doodleflip]

Hi

I am new to this forum and BT2. Could someone help me please - I have tried searching and cannot find an appropriate answer on this thread.

When I start Startx on the HP desktop it comes up with a fatal error - cannot find screen - no matching VESA Modes.

I have swapped to a Dell screen and get the same problem.

I have run the CD from my HP laptop without any problems.

In checking wiki.X.org for this error message I found that they had a bug reported regarding this:



Which says that there is a bug in the X-org distribution and that an updated version was released to fix it. Which version is BT2 running?

The version I have downloaded is BT2Final in March this year.

Does anyone have a solution for how to fix this please? I would like to install BT2 on this computers HD but can't get in to do it!

[tycmichael]

Hey Doodleflip, hope this will help.
When you boot the LiveCD and at the boot prompt, type:

/boot/vmlinuz max_loop=255 initrd=/boot/initrd.gz init=linuxrc load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 ramdisk_size=10000 root=/dev/ram0 rw press enter

The above should boot you to the login (text).
Type: root
Password: toor

You still won't have X yet, at least I didn't until I modified my bootloader.

I use grub and it shakes out like this:

Title=BackTrack Linux
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x317 noapic acpi=off apm=power-off vga=791

The above kernel's parameters are all on ONE line!
hda7 is my partition, change it to yours.

In lilo, I believe it would be something lihe:

image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = BackTrack Linux
root = /dev/hda2 (or your root patition)
read-only
append="vga=0x317 noapic acpi=off apm=power-off vga=791"

This works for me, for root and users. Happy hunting

[Doodleflip]

Ta very muchly, will give it a try today.

[imported_harry]

Have you tried "xconf" too?