2003-05-21 10:27:07

by Hadmut Danisch

Subject: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

Hi,

could anyone give me a hint about booting a 2.5.69
kernel? (Please reply directly, I'm not on the list)

When booting the 2.5.69 the boot code prints
"Uncompressing..." and "booting..." and then
it remains completely silent. Since the hard disk
gets active, the kernel does not seem to have crashed,
but to have become speechless. (Standard x86 hardware)

Any idea?

regards
Hadmut

2003-05-21 11:04:05

by Dave Jones

Subject: Re: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:37:13PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> could anyone give me a hint about booting a 2.5.69
> kernel? (Please reply directly, I'm not on the list)
>
> When booting the 2.5.69 the boot code prints
> "Uncompressing..." and "booting..." and then
> it remains completely silent. Since the hard disk
> gets active, the kernel does not seem to have crashed,
> but to have become speechless. (Standard x86 hardware)

First make sure your .config contains
CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y

if they do already, then.. if you have CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
try turning that off.

Dave

2003-05-21 11:55:22

by Dumitru Stama

Subject: Re: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

HD> gets active, the kernel does not seem to have crashed,
HD> but to have become speechless. (Standard x86 hardware)
HD> Any idea?

I think you have wrong settings of the console.
Try the standard 80/25 text mode...

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2003-05-21 12:22:11

by Hadmut Danisch

Subject: Re: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:21:15PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> First make sure your .config contains
> CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
>
> if they do already, then.. if you have CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> try turning that off.

Thanks for the hint, but it didn't help. :-(

regards
Hadmut

2003-05-21 12:27:08

by Hadmut Danisch

Subject: Re: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:08:19PM +0200, Dumitru Stama wrote:

> I think you have wrong settings of the console.
> Try the standard 80/25 text mode...
>


Thanks for the hint, that brought me to the problem:

# CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set


Setting this to y solved the problem.


Thanks and regards
Hadmut

2003-05-21 12:28:14

by Dave Jones

Subject: Re: speechless 2.5.69 kernel?

On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 02:30:01PM +0200, Hadmut Danisch wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2003 at 12:21:15PM +0100, Dave Jones wrote:
> > First make sure your .config contains
> > CONFIG_INPUT=y, CONFIG_VT=y and CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> >
> > if they do already, then.. if you have CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
> > try turning that off.
>
> Thanks for the hint, but it didn't help. :-(

tried booting with acpi=off ?
Try disabling framebuffer if you have it compiled in.

Dave