On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 05:58:15PM -0500, Damon Butler wrote: > > What kernel are you using? > Using kernel 2.4.18. But I've tried standard "linux" and even "rescue" modes, > too. The result is the same. > > Have you tried booting with video=vga16:off as an argument to the kernel > > image? > Actually, yes! I stumbled across it a day or two after I wrote you the > message, and now my video is fine. Can you explain why I require this option > when booting Debian but not when I was using SuSE or Mandrake? I'm guessing, others should know better. For some reason, your screen or graphics hardware doens't like the framebuffer used in the floppies. I think that the only drawback of not using it is that you can't install in other languages. > Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated. No problem :) Jordi -- Jordi Mallach Pérez -- Debian developer http://www.debian.org/ jordi@sindominio.net jordi@debian.org http://www.sindominio.net/ GnuPG public key information available at http://oskuro.net/~jordi/
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