Re: Sid, problems with 2.6.14

[marc <gmane@auxbuss.com>]

Curt Howland said...
> Hi, yall. I pulled down 2.6.14 yesterday with the usual topping off of 
> the tank, as it were, and tried it out today.
> 
> LILO puts up the usual "......" for loading, then bam, black screen. 
> There's some disk access for about 10 seconds, then nothing and the 
> CPU fan starts spinning up like it's utilizing 100%.
> 
> I do have the Knoppix sourced "vga=791" for a decent console screen, 
> but that's worked since kernel 2.2.x.

Try removing that command for a single boot to see whether it is the 
problem.

If so, set the following kernel option to to y instead of m

# Device drivers/Graphics support/Console display driver 
support/Framebuffer Console Support

This is a common change when using vanilla kernels and vga=blah.

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Best,
Marc