From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Finn Thain <fthain@telegraphics.com.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT breaks PowerBook 3400 with BootX
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:07:29 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219205249.21386.7.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0808200148080.24338@loopy.telegraphics.com.au>
On Wed, 2008-08-20 at 03:23 +1000, Finn Thain wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> When I build kernels with CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT enabled I can't boot a PB 3400
> with BootX. I get a black screen with "Welcome to Linux" at the top, then
> it appears to hang. Debian kernels are configured this way and suffer the
> same problem.
>
> I don't know if Quik is affected. It is a bit of a hassle at install time
> since the (mediabay) floppy drive can't co-exist with the (mediabay)
> CDROM, so I'm using BootX to do the Debian install.
>
> The Debian Sarge 2.6.8-4 kernel does not seem to have this problem though
> kernel.org 2.6.16 and later versions do.
>
> Any ideas?
How "late" have you tried ? I remember fixing something at one point...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-20 4:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-19 17:23 CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT breaks PowerBook 3400 with BootX Finn Thain
2008-08-20 4:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-08-20 8:25 ` Finn Thain
2008-08-20 9:04 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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