Peter Petrakis (peterpan@wn.net)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:50:06 -0500 (EST)
I have the same problem! It's happened with 2.1.130 and up. Though I
never get to a login screen, I boot to runlevel 3 not 5.Maybe were using
some kernel options that aren't Alpha frendly? I'm checking out your
config file now...
Alpha Powered,
Peter Petrakis
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, geerten kuiper wrote:
> yesterday I attempted to get 2.1.132 running.
> - downloaded from my favorite mirror.
> - included some patches to softirq.h (posted on this list by Peter Rye.)
> - make config
> - make dep clean boot
> - tried to boot new kernel: hung at "jumping to kernel"
> - changed -O2 to -O in Makefile
> - make dep clean boot
> - tried to boot new kernel: hung at "jumping to kernel"
> - copied newer linload.exe and milo from RedHat CD
> - tried to boot new kernel:
> after "jumping to kernel" the screen went black, but I noticed some
> disk-activity, so it seemed the system was actually booting. Sure enough,
> after a while the X logon screen came up. Now everything is fine as long as
> I'm in X, but when I switch back to a textconsole with Ctrl-Alt-F1, the
> screen is a dark blue, with brown characters: hardly legible. Using color
> apps (like Midnight Commander) also shows the colors completely mixed up.
> Ideas anyone ?
>
> My configuration:
> PC164
> S3 based graphics
> RedHat, recently upgraded to 5.2
> .config file attached
>
> Groeten,
> Geerten.
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