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From: Robbie Dinn <robbie@microbus.com>
Subject: Re: No video display, SuSE kernel-xen-2.6.11.4-21.7
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:22:33 +0100
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Cc: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
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Gerd Knorr wrote:
>>adler:~ # dmesg | grep -i console
>>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>>adler:~ # cat /proc/fb
>>adler:~ # 
> 
> 
> Standard vga text console, also no framebuffer device active.
> Hmm.  You really should see something ...
> 
> Maybe grub does something silly, so the machine comes up with
> the vga in graphics instead of text mode.  What happens if you
> turn off the eye-candy stuff in /boot/grub/menu.lst (comment
> the gfxmenu line)?

Here is what the start of my menu.lst looks like;

   adler:~ # mount /dev/hda2 /boot
   adler:~ # head /boot/grub/menu.lst
   # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Sat Nov 13 19:12:31 2004


   timeout 8
   default 0
   root (hd0,1)
   makeactive
   color white/blue black/light-gray

   ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
   adler:~ #

*** STOP PRESS ***

I just put the server machine back in the rack and when
I booted it up, the text console came up with text on it!

** boggle **

However the font was corrupt (little under lines
under all the u's and p's).

** double boggle **

Part way through the font got fixed, possibly when a new
console font got loaded.

This would normally scream flakey hardware to me,
except I have seen the black screen problem on two
different disks and 3 different mother boards (that
is two motherboard and one laptop).

I sincerely hope that I haven't been leading you folks
on a wild goose chase.

yours dazed and confused,

Robbie Dinn