On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 06:12:42PM -0000, amhoov@gmail.com wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently attempted to upgrade my kernel from 2.4.27 to 2.6.18 on my > Sarge installation. First off, I had to change my sources.list to use > the Etch packages because of a dependency loop involving libc6. what was the problem? there are 2.6 series kernel in sarge (2.6.8 I think). You should be able to just do it without messing with Etch packages. and since you've started... you may need to finish moving up to Etch. > However, I did the kernel installation w/ "apt-get install kernel- > image-2.6-686" and the installation completed successfully w/ my Grub > configurations updated automatically. > > When I restarted the machine and selected the 2.6 kernel, the boot > process proceeded fine (and I could read all the text scrolling by). > But when it came time to display the login prompt (terminal only, it's > a server, so there's no X11) the screen got all garbled. Essentially > all I can see is flickering black and white boxes covering the screen. > However, I can login and reboot the machine - I just can't see what > I'm typing. > > Anyone have any suggestions on this one? I tried installing the kernel- > image-2.6-386 on a lark, but I still ran into the same problem. I'm > not passing any special kernel parameters on boot to the 2.4 kernel > either. What am I missing? > I think there is some new console-font stuff happening. You can see it with a successful post-sarge boot .. the screen flickers while it sets up the consoles. Have you tried booting single-user mode? A
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