Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Ed Tomlinson <> | Subject | Re: Blank Screen in 2.6.0 | Date | Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:02:21 -0500 |
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On December 28, 2003 06:08 pm, dan@eglifamily.dnsalias.net wrote: > On 28 Dec 2003, Gabor MICSKO wrote: > > http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt > > I tried that. > > > Known gotchas. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Certain known bugs are being reported over and over. Here are the > workarounds. > - Blank screen after decompressing kernel? > Make sure your .config has > CONFIG_INPUT=y > CONFIG_VT=y > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > A lot of people have discovered that taking their .config from 2.4 and > running make oldconfig to pick up new options leads to problems, notably > with CONFIG_VT not being set. > > ok, so I grep'ed the .config > > [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_input .config > CONFIG_INPUT=y > [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vt .config > CONFIG_VT=y > [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vga_console .config > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > [root@eglifamily kernel]# grep -wi config_vt_console .config > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > [root@eglifamily kernel]# > > you can see that in the .config I attched: > > > CONFIG_INPUT=y > > > CONFIG_VT=y > > > CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y > > > CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y > > Any other ideas?
I had problems getting 2.6.0 to work on a second box too. What seemed to solve it here was defining the fonts:
CONFIG_PCI_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
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