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mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

splashy

Hello,
I've installed splashy, and I always get some error on boot, something not important ...
but splash disappears when error shows up, how can I tell splashy to ignore errors ?

eldarion

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From: Santarém - Portugal

Registered: 2006-08-01

Posts: 71

Re: splashy

I may be wrong, but i think you can't. See

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Splashy

Known Problems:
1. Splashy doesn't terminate or automatically switch to verbose mode if an error occurs or when an init script fails.

The best way is to correct those errors.

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

there's bios error, and there's something with groups xD
I'll reboot and post here errors ...

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

PCI BIOS BUG MCFG area at f8000000 is not E520 reserver
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
Cannot find default font
No volume groups found
No volume groups found
IP-config: no device to configure

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

anyone has idea how to correct those errors ?

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: splashy

You can get rid of the default font problem by setting a font in rc.conf, and my guess is that when you installed arch you answered yes when asked if you needed support for LVM Volumes or something like that. You can get rid of that by editing /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and then reinstalling the kernel package (although I don't know exactly what you would edit in that file... probably the 'hooks' line).

Can't help you with the other messages.

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

I've editied /etc/mkinitcpio.conf, removed lvm under HOOKS, and reinstalled kernel ...
but i don't know which font should I set in /etc/rc.conf

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

I've set this in /etc/rc.conf:

CONSOLEFONT="lat2-16.psfu.gz"
CONSOLEMAP="8859-2"

errors I get now:

PCI BIOS BUG MCFG area at f8000000 is not E520 reserver
PCI: Not using MMCONFIG
Cannot find default font
IP-config: no device to configure

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: splashy

When you set the font in rc.conf, you don't include the file extension. Also, you need to reinstall the kernel again after changing the font I believe (and anytime you change settings that effect booting up, besides grub entries).

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

with reinstalling, you mean mkinitpcio -p kernel26 ?

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: splashy

I actually don't know what mkinitcpio -p kernel26 does, even after reading the manpage. I just reinstall with pacman -S kernel26, but I know there are other ways to do the same thing. So you're probably right.

EDIT: I actually just noticed that I have the same IP-config error message as you do. I wonder why I never paid attention to it before. Also, something just occurred to me. I'm fairly sure that these messages are from grub, and splashy doesn't start until after grub unless I'm mistaken. So getting rid of these errors might not help your situation.

Last edited by fflarex (2008-01-28 04:04:02)

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

Ok, I'll still try to get rid of errors

mfolnovic

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From: Zagreb, Croatia

Registered: 2008-01-03

Posts: 104

Re: splashy

anyone know how to fix other errors ?