2.6.1 Config

[Bruce Marshall]

On Wed January 14 2004 05:50 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> 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.

That did it....  Thanks.....

Now I'm back to my original problem where the boot just hangs after starting 
up a bunch of stuff...   with no apparent reason.

But at least I can now see how far it gets.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         01/14/04 18:45  +
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