2.6.1 Config

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> I'm taking a crack at 2.6.1 but I'm in the middle of the usual console
> problems.
>
> At boot time, it keeps throwing up some sort of graphic screen in a wrong mode
> (which makes it unreadable) and I can't tell what the boot is doing.  (and it
> never completes)
>
> I've killed all the logo stuff in the configuration, and I've been trying to
> kill any thought of graphics during the boot.  I've set  vga=ask at boot time
> and have tried a simple  80x25  request for that...  but the damn graphic
> screen keeps coming up.
>
> Anyone have an idea where I config'd wrong?  Obviously something in the
> console defs.

Can you try not using any of that fancy console video mode stuff?  I never
enable it at all on my kernels (just use the default), and my 3 2.6.0
boxes don't have any problems (and they're all different hardware).
Granted, i don't need any fb stuff, so if you require it, that might be
half the problem.

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