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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: Re: Continuing problems booting
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:56:33 +0100
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> I can watch the cursor moving, just no characters appear on the screen.
>  Maybe some I/O port access issue?  So the color palette is foobar and
> it prints black on black?

Hmm, funny thing is, earlyprintk=vga _does_ print something. Looks
incomplete though (scrolls by quickly) and of course the early console
stops anyway as soon as the vga console takes over.

cheers,
  Gerd