Re: sysint crash

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

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/compile/EMMAS

this lines tell us architecture and kernel used.

[     1.014923] genfb0: framebuffer at 0xf1000000, size 1024x768, depth 32, stride 4096

and this tells us the resolution of the display.

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.

Martin