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#1 2012-05-04 10:14:06

floppy_stuttgart
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Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

Hello,

since I had no answer there  http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions … ic-942777/
I am posting here in the archbang forum.

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I am starting Archbang with the menu extlinux (multiboot) on an HDD (asrock K8S7x R3.0, Athlon XP, 768MB RAM, HDD 4GB, nVidia FX 5200)

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LABEL ArchBang Linux
MENU LABEL ArchBang Linux
LINUX /arch/boot/i686/vmlinuz
INITRD /arch/boot/i686/archiso.img
APPEND archisobasedir=arch archisodevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/12a06846-af2f-4e91-ba6d-5bdee7378558 quiet
TEXT HELP
keyboard setup de, resolution lower, nv or nouveau
ENDTEXT
...........

This type of installation is normally done for USB (I have archbang on an USB).
In this case, I transfered the USB files to the HDD and it starts.

issues I would like to improve:
- keyboard DE instead of US
- 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024

Is there any boot code for it?
If not, how to make the setup, and how to make it persistent for the next boot?

Possible future improvement: driver nv or nouveau instead of vesa for the FX5200 Nvidia  (1024x768 resolution, depth 24) . vesa is loaded according the Xorg.log in the current boot procedure. How to blacklist vesa in order to become nv activ? Is there any boot code in extlinux to blacklist modules?

Perhaps are the questions about the boot codes a bit curious but I managed to configure correctly knoppix with several boot codes and tinycorelinux, too.
That PC is for a linux education session in a school in stuttgart (thats the reason of 3 different OS with multiboot).


Any help is welcome.

Thanks.

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#2 2012-05-04 14:29:40

pablokal
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

You can find answers to your questions in the wiki and also on this forum.
The screen resolution will be defined by a configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Installation of nouveau will also create a nouveau config file there.
See http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4797#p4797
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#3 2012-05-04 14:38:05

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

ok. And the persistence through the boots of that changes is done by cow_device=/dev/sda1  ?

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#4 2012-05-10 13:40:09

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

pablokal wrote:

You can find answers to your questions in the wiki and also on this forum.
The screen resolution will be defined by a configuration file in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
Installation of nouveau will also create a nouveau config file there.
See http://bbs.archbang.org/viewtopic.php?pid=4797#p4797
Keyboard:
http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … r_Keyboard

so, I booted with ".. cow_device=/dev/sda2" and copied a xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in a terminal.
but with reboot, the file was gone; so, no persistence was made.
So, I booted with ".. cow_device=/dev/sda2 3" in order to go into command line; for copying xorg.conf and startx.. but..
It comes to "archbang login:"
What is the login? the PW?
Any advice is welcome.

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#5 2012-05-10 23:07:50

Mr Green
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

In this case, I transfered the USB files to the HDD and it starts.

issues I would like to improve:
- keyboard DE instead of US
- 1024x768 instead of 1280x1024

Are you running from an external usb drive? Are you running iso on hard drive [poor mans install]?

You do not need persistence on a full install

Keyboard settings are in rc.conf, you need to edit locales in /etc and more than likely add setxkbmap de & in .config/openbox/autostart

Screen resolution you need to read nouveau or nvidia Arch Linux wiki page...

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#6 2012-05-11 09:39:13

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

Mr Green wrote:

Are you running from an external usb drive? Are you running iso on hard drive [poor mans install]?
...

I boot from the HDD with:

LABEL ArchBang Linux
MENU LABEL ArchBang Linux
LINUX /arch/boot/i686/vmlinuz
INITRD /arch/boot/i686/archiso.img
APPEND archisobasedir=arch archisodevice=/dev/disk/by-uuid/12a06846-af2f-4e91-ba6d-5bdee7378558 quiet

which is like an USB install (I transfered the files from the USB to the internal HDD and changed slightly a boot code).
So, a persistance has to be installed.

Last edited by floppy_stuttgart (2012-05-11 10:04:41)

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#7 2012-05-11 09:58:32

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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

http://wiki.archbang.org/index.php?titl … so_Install

Maybe something there may help

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#8 2012-05-11 10:21:16

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

Mr Green wrote:

I made exactly this.
How to save the files after having the boot code cow_device ?
Is there a menu to click "save new generated files to the cow_device" ?

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#9 2012-05-12 12:02:36

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

floppy_stuttgart wrote:

so, I booted with ".. cow_device=/dev/sda2" and copied a xorg.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf in a terminal.
but with reboot, the file was gone; so, no persistence was made.
So, I booted with ".. cow_device=/dev/sda2 3" in order to go into command line; for copying xorg.conf and startx.. but..
It comes to "archbang login:"
What is the login? the PW?
Any advice is welcome.

I booted with .. cow_device=/dev/sda2 1   and not 3  and its fine because no username and no pwd were asked.
the question which remain is how to save the newly created xorg.conf
any help is welcome.

Last edited by floppy_stuttgart (2012-05-12 12:03:27)

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#10 2012-05-12 12:08:12

Mr Green
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

xorg.conf is no longer used please see your other post, the directory you are looking for is

/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

please read up the links I posted for a better understanding of how xorg works,

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#11 2012-05-13 01:24:26

floppy_stuttgart
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Re: Which Archbang bootcode for diverse setups? (keyboard grafic resolut)

ok ok.
But the question which remain is: how to setup persistence of a modified system file? (whatever file it is)

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