Bug#132990: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
Package: boot-floppies
Severity: serious
Version: 3.0.19
see below.
Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:39:07AM -0700 wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4
> boot floppies. It booted up and loaded root.bin without incident but
> dbootstrap gave me a solid white screen with a blinking cursor in the
> upper left corner. Hitting return caused the cursor to move down the
> screen so this does not appear to be a case of 'white on white'
> colors. I tried each of the following boot arguments but the symptoms
> were the same.
>
> linux floppy=thinkpad
> linux floppy=thinkpad,mono
>
> Can anyone suggest a workaround for this?
>
> I had previously booted successfully into dbootstrap with the reiserfs
> boot floppies and this problem did not exist.
>
> -- Mark
>
>
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