From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270396AbTGMU6t (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:58:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270395AbTGMU6t (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:58:49 -0400 Received: from genius.impure.org.uk ([195.82.120.210]:31180 "EHLO deviant.impure.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270405AbTGMU5n (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 16:57:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:12:27 +0100 From: Dave Jones To: Anthony Lichnewsky Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86 Message-ID: <20030713211227.GA16127@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Anthony Lichnewsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <3F1163A7.6010004@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F1163A7.6010004@tuxfamily.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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