Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Jul 2003 07:28:05 +0200 | From | lich@tuxfamil ... | Subject | Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86 |
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Dave Jones wrote: > On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote: > > After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black. > > the traditional init message is not even displayed > > ( INIT version 2.85 booting ). > > It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it. > > > > I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config. > > I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any > > real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43. > > Any Idea of what it might be ? > > Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config. > (That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in > its EDID parser, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/052.html > which still isn't fixed...) > > Dave > > > Thanks Dave.
I did that, and it left me with the kernel booting, but still no VT. In fact, it appeared that rivafb that I use (says it detected my geForce 2, nevertheless ...) didn't do anything. I suppressed it and used vesafb instead, and that was it. I have now another strange problem, but I think I am not the only one to experience it.
modprobe fails on /etc/modules.devfs and /etc/modules.conf at each probeall line. therefore, I dont have all modules up, particularly no mouse, no sound, no pcmcia, no acpi, no ide-scsi cdrw/dvd ....
the message is modprobe: WARNING: /etc/modules.xxxx line xx: ignoring bad line starting with 'probeall'
my modules.devfs only has probeall lines. I use it also for my 2.4 kernels. What should I do ?? updated my modultils to use modprobe-25. It looks like it doesn't support probeall yet. Do I change all probeall for simple probes ? The idea of compiliing most of the modules into the kernel doesn't appeal to me that much.
Is there any known workaround ?
Please cc me as I did not suscribe yet.
-anthony
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