From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263765AbTEFOMU (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:12:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263770AbTEFOMT (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:12:19 -0400 Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com ([192.108.102.143]:56392 "EHLO smtp-send.myrealbox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263765AbTEFOLd (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 May 2003 10:11:33 -0400 Message-ID: <3EB7D399.4090109@myrealbox.com> Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 08:24:09 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030502 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David van Hoose CC: LKML Subject: Re: [2.5.69] Fails on "Uncompressing Kernel" (detailed) References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David van Hoose wrote: > I've managed to get 2.5.69 to boot *once*. Not trusting the kernel to > report the numerous problems until I can boot the kernel more than once. > I lost my config so I can't figure out what I managed to do so right. I > have tried a couple other configs that I normally use for 2.4.x, but > with the new 2.5.x options. Those I have attached. > All I get is the "Uncompressing Linux" and then no more output. However, > it appears that my system is booting anyway as if it is on another TTY. The configuration menu has changed recently so that support for normal console operation is not included by default. To activate the usual console on VT and on VGA requires selecting options that are buried in the 'Character device' 'Input device' and 'Graphics support' menu sections. Go all the way to the bottom of each section and you will see the obvious items you need to select. Rather a confusing change.