From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3926A313.3AB13BBA@wibble.net> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 00:37:07 +1000 From: Steven Hanley MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ethan Benson , Linux PPC Dev Subject: Re: Paul's 2.2.15 does not boot a 7200 References: <20000520002947.A6452@plato.local.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Ethan I think it may actually be booting, if it is hooked up to a netwrok try pinging it or sshing into it, I also had this problem with the 2.2.14 pre series from linuxcare on my 7200/200 with a normal atyfb, the problem was the thing's video was blank after the bootx sequence finished loding it and the kernal ran. 2.2.10 was fine so I wanted to know what the problem with the graphics was/is, it seems some change in 2.2.* recently made it detect the graphics capabilities incorectly and not use the right mode. so the fix is to put something like video=atyfb:vmode:5 on the kernel command line and it will boot with text displauyed, I still am somewhat annmoyed as 2.2.10 the thing auto detected and displayed 100x40 or osme similarly sized mode, and now it only does 80x50, which I find way too large (even on the 14" monitor I have with this machine (heck I happily run 160x60 console on 15" monitors on my x86 boxen) Anyway try forcing a specific video mode ont he kernel command line and you may get a display. I was able to work with the machine with no display quite happily using only ssh and such and was thus able to try different kernels. See You Steve -- sjh@wibble.net http://wibble.net/~sjh/ Look Up In The Sky Is it a bird? No Is it a plane? No Is it a small blue banana? YES ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/