Re: the vanishing console message trick
Jeff Cours said:
> Hi, everyone -
>
> I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago,
> my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all
> vanished.
> There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the
> monitor hasn't gone into power save), but the screen is blank, like it
> looks when the console's screen blanking cuts in.[1]
>
>
> Switching LILO from menu to text mode doesn't seem to change the
> situation. There is nothing obvious in dmesg or /var/log/messages.
>
> If I boot from the boot floppy, I get readable console messages.
>
Have you tried setting "vga=ask" in lilo to see if maybe vga or
framebuffer has somehow been set to a weird mode for startup?
G
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