Peter Petrakis (peterpan@wn.net)
Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:35:42 -0500
I see you have VGA console enabled. Try disabling it and see what happens. I'm building 2.1.132 with ac3 patches now with egcs 1.1b. I'll let you know what happens.
> 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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