Old laptop video probs

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Old laptop video probs
started by: spotslayer

Posted by spotslayer on June 27 2005,22:54

I have been given an old laptop. It is an IBM 701c which is a 486dx. I don't have a diskette drive or cdrom for it. I installed frugal on a 6g hard drive using a different laptop. I inadvertantly set the video wrong. I need to set it for frame buffer. It boots o.k. but when it is time for the gui to pop up it never does. From this point is there a way to get to a command prompt? Is there a way to break out during initial load? I think if I could get to a command prompt I could run xsetup.sh and reset things correctly. I have tried alt-F1-F4 with no luck. I have tried cntl-alt-backspace with no luck. I hate to have to tear things down and start over. Any ideas will be appreciated.

David

Posted by famewolf on June 28 2005,02:35

Hitting ctrl C right after you see the mounting for floppy/cdrom message will break you out to a command line...you can then fix whatever...

Posted by skaos on June 28 2005,10:36

Writing "linux 2" (without quotes) at the "boot:"-prompt should also work.