Re: the vanishing console message trick
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:15, Jeff Cours wrote:
> 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]
>
> Here's the sequence:
> 1. power up or reboot
> 2. BIOS messages come up
> 3. Drive search. Brief messages about nothing bootable in CD-ROM or floppy.
> 4. When the LILO menu would normally appear, the screen goes blank.
> 5. At this point, I can still control lilo: hit enter, and I get linux,
> or cursor-down twice and hit enter and I get Windows.
> 6. Long pause while black messages scroll past on a black screen. Very
> long pause if the kernel decides to fsck a drive.
> 7. Eventually, KDM fires up normally and I get a graphical login screen.
> 8. If I then tell KDM to shutdown or reboot, I get back to black
> messages on a black screen until the system shuts down the hard drive.
> (It's an ACPI motherboard, not an APM one. I'm still trying to get
> automatic power-down to work properly.)
>
> 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.
What does /var/log/dmesg look like?
Could it be trying to unsuccessfully boot up in framebuffer mode?
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