Re: X does not start. vm86old returns ENOSYS?? -- solved

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 16:53, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Hi Stas, all,
>
> I have put my hard drive, which holds working desktop
> Linux system, into another box.
> Linux starts w/o problem, but X does not.
>
> Video is an i845. Madrake 9 install on the same box
> starts X just fine.
>
> I booted into 'my' Linux again, mounted partition
> with working Mandrake, chrooted into it, tried to start X.
> The same result, does not work.

Turned out that Mandrake was working because it was booted
via lilo whereas "my" Linux was booted via DOS-based loader.

When I started "my" Linux via lilo, everything worked just fine.

Heh. Proper solution is probably to teach X to not use int10.
--
vda
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