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From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Anthony Lichnewsky <lich@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:12:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030713211227.GA16127@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1163A7.6010004@tuxfamily.org>

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote:
 > After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
 > the traditional init message is not even displayed
 > ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
 > It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.
 > 
 > I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
 > I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
 > real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
 > Any Idea of what it might be ?

Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config.
(That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in
 its EDID parser, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/0572.html
 which still isn't fixed...)

		Dave

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-13 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-13 13:50 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86 Anthony Lichnewsky
2003-07-13 21:12 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-07-14  2:42 ` Horst von Brand
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-14  5:28 lich
2003-07-14  6:01 ` Rahul Karnik

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