Bug#631997: linux-image-2.6.39-2-486: black screen after grub menu
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 04:22 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 23:12 -0400, Wendy Elmer wrote:
> [...]
> > I will try the earlier versions when I get a chance. It may not be
> > very soon since that computer is at my church and I will be on
> > vacation for a week. By the way, since I will be using snapshot, is
> > there a config file for APT that I can put something to handle the
> > snapshots being expired? See bug 595801. It is a pain when going to
> > snapshot in synaptic and getting the release file expired message. I
> > drop out to the command line and do apt-get -o
> > 'Acquire::Check-Valid-Until=false' update from the command line to get
> > around it.
>
> Sorry, I have no better idea.
>
> > recovery mode does not work either. Still an endless black screen
> > after grub with no messages from the kernel.
>
> What processor and how much RAM does this systeam have?
>
> Ben.
>
It is an AMD Athlon 850 MHZ. It is maxed out at a whopping 256 MB ram.
It is an old HP computer which has very oddball hardware that I am
trying to keep crippling along because the church doesn't have the money
to buy a better one. The reason I am running the old custom kernel is
because it has an oddball conexant riptide sound card that I have to
special handle in the kernel build(3rd party driver and firmware) in
order to make it work and it is a pain.
Brent
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