Re: sysint crash

[Stephen Medina <stephen%lilmail.xyz@localhost>]

On Thursday, May 9, 2024 11:35:03 PM PDT you wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2024 at 03:14:54PM -0700, Stephen Medina wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was in the middle of my first install, about to partition my
> > drive, when sysint terminated with the error "screen too
> > narrow for menu". I am using one of those old square LCD
> > monitors. Is there a way around this?
> 
> Tell us more about the machine this happened on. Sysinst requires at least
> 80 columns and 24 rows (which seems reasonable). If your architecture's
> kernel does not come with fonts to allow for that, we need to add them.
> 
> What is the resolution of your display and what kernel are you booting?
> 
> You can boot the installer, exit installation and use e.g.
> 
> 	dmesg | more
> 
> to find more details. An example for on of my machines would be:
> 
> [     1.000000] NetBSD 10.0_STABLE (EMMAS) #7: Sun Apr 28 16:05:18 CEST 2024
> [     1.000000]        
> martin%seven-days-to-the-wolves.aprisoft.de@localhost:/work/src-10/sys/arch/amd64/com
> pile/EMMAS
> 
> this lines tell us architecture and kernel used.

amd64 GENERIC

> [     1.014923] genfb0: framebuffer at 0xf1000000, size 1024x768, depth 32,
> stride 4096
> 
> and this tells us the resolution of the display.

1024 x 768

> You can check the text resolution by
> 
> 	stty -a
> 
> which for me outputs:
> 
> speed 9600 baud; 48 rows; 128 columns; queue = 2048; line = termios;
> lflags: icanon isig iexten echo echoe -echok echoke -echonl echoctl
>         -echoprt -altwerase -noflsh -tostop -flusho pendin -nokerninfo
>         -extproc
> iflags: -istrip icrnl -inlcr -igncr ixon -ixoff ixany imaxbel -ignbrk
>         brkint -inpck -ignpar -parmrk
> oflags: opost onlcr -ocrnl -oxtabs -onocr -onlret
> cflags: cread cs8 -parenb -parodd hupcl -clocal -cstopb -crtscts -mdmbuf
>         -cdtrcts
> cchars: discard = ^O; dsusp = ^Y; eof = ^D; eol = <undef>;
>         eol2 = <undef>; erase = ^?; intr = ^C; kill = ^U; lnext = ^V;
>         min = 1; quit = ^\; reprint = ^R; start = ^Q; status = ^T;
>         stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; time = 0; werase = ^W;
> 
> 
> So I have 48 rows and 128 columns, despite the quite low res monitor
> used on that console.

I get 24 rows and 64 columns! Too low it seems. Do I need a different monitor?

> Martin