From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: booting without VGA
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:19:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26759.977159991@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001218122853.A32153@oasis.fireblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001218122853.A32153@oasis.fireblue.com>
abz@frogfoot.net said:
> I'm currently wokring on a embedded system for a camera device. It
> runs linux and we use the M-Systems DiskOnChip driver (a seperate
> module available from their site) for storage and as a boot device.
> The problem is if we boot with a kernel WITH vga support enabled, it
> boots fine. If we disable vga support it doesn't seem to boot. What
> makes it even stranger is that if we boot with that same non-vga
> kernel using an IDE disk as boot device it also boots fine.
You're using binary-only code. You shouldn't expect anyone on the l-k
mailing list to give your problem a second thought.
Does it work if you use the GPL'd DiskOnChip driver which is in
2.4.0-test12? You can also use it in 2.2 kernels.
--
dwmw2
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-18 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-18 10:28 booting without VGA Abraham vd Merwe
2000-12-18 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 17:19 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-12-18 11:11 Mike Ricketts
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=26759.977159991@redhat.com \
--to=dwmw2@infradead.org \
--cc=abz@frogfoot.net \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.