From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Abraham vd Merwe <abz@frogfoot.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: booting without VGA
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 17:19:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <26759.977159991@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001218122853.A32153@oasis.fireblue.com>
In-Reply-To: <20001218122853.A32153@oasis.fireblue.com>
abz@frogfoot.net said:
> I'm currently wokring on a embedded system for a camera device. It
> runs linux and we use the M-Systems DiskOnChip driver (a seperate
> module available from their site) for storage and as a boot device.
> The problem is if we boot with a kernel WITH vga support enabled, it
> boots fine. If we disable vga support it doesn't seem to boot. What
> makes it even stranger is that if we boot with that same non-vga
> kernel using an IDE disk as boot device it also boots fine.
You're using binary-only code. You shouldn't expect anyone on the l-k
mailing list to give your problem a second thought.
Does it work if you use the GPL'd DiskOnChip driver which is in
2.4.0-test12? You can also use it in 2.2 kernels.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-18 17:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-18 10:28 booting without VGA Abraham vd Merwe
2000-12-18 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2000-12-18 17:19 ` David Woodhouse [this message]
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2000-12-18 11:11 Mike Ricketts
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