RE: unsupported vid card....

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Does kickstart install anything at all?  How far does it get?  IIRC, you
have to tell Linux how much memory you have (add an append mem=???M) on the
i810 board.  Did you try adding a skipx line?

Forrest

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Johnny Lopes [mailto:johnny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:05 AM
> To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: unsupported vid card....
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm going to keep this generic but if more details are requested, I'll
> surly entertain.
> 
> I have a good kickstart setup for Redhat 6.1, we can build 
> machines with
> minimal effort, and
> for that I am grateful....
>   ...until
>        I came across this problem when I tried kickstarting 
> an SBC w/ an
> 810 intel chipset and integrated
> video card.  It just fails, flat out.  This is were I'm going to avoid
> specifics but I need to ask this question.
> Why should the whole install fail just because it cant set video?
> 
> I tried getting the new bootnet image, no luck.  Do I need to d/l the
> appropriate module and add it by
> hand in initrd.img?  Is there a workaround for this that I'm 
> overlooking
> or is this gross negligence on my
> part because this is some extremely well documented problem 
> that I didn't
> read...
> 
> any feedback/hints/tips/curses/flames will be greatly appreciated...
> 
> tia
> -johnny





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