From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Anthony Lichnewsky <lich@tuxfamily.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:12:27 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030713211227.GA16127@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F1163A7.6010004@tuxfamily.org>
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote:
> After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
> the traditional init message is not even displayed
> ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
> It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.
>
> I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
> I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
> real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
> Any Idea of what it might be ?
Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config.
(That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in
its EDID parser, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/0572.html
which still isn't fixed...)
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-13 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-13 13:50 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86 Anthony Lichnewsky
2003-07-13 21:12 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-07-14 2:42 ` Horst von Brand
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2003-07-14 5:28 lich
2003-07-14 6:01 ` Rahul Karnik
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