Re: [suse-axp] Boot problems on ds20

From: Stefan Fent (sf@suse.de)
Date: Mon Jan 08 2001 - 07:55:08 PST

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    Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 16:55:08 +0100 (CET)
    From: Stefan Fent <sf@suse.de>
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0101081647310.19261-100000@d150.suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] Boot problems on ds20
    

    Hi Mark,

    On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Mark Hounschell wrote:

    > Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2001 12:48:19 -0500
    > From: Mark Hounschell <markh@compro.net>
    > To: "suse-axp@suse.com" <suse-axp@suse.com>
    > Subject: [suse-axp] Boot problems on ds20
    >

    First, there is no xserver for the TGA2 card, as it uses a Cirrus Logic
    chip with is not supported.

    > For some reason while trying to get X to work something got trashed.
    > When I boot the disk from SRM>> "boot dkb0 -fl 0" the system boots
    > up but I'm still in SRM. The last message I see is SRM telling me
    > it's booting the particular kernel. The machine boots all the way
    > up to run level 2. I can blindly login and shutdown but no linux console
    > is displayed. What have I done. If I boot from the 7.0 CD #1 it works
    > ok and I can get to the point of booting an installed kernel in yast
    > and it works ok from there. I've actually done a complete re-install on
    > a
    > different disk. Same thing. What could have happened?

    If you start YaST from CD and then start the installed system, You're
    still running the kernel from CD, so I think the TGA-Kernel is wrong.
    (AFAIR you're booting with ...-fl 0 which starts the default kernel w/o
    TGA-support)
    The only solution I can see is to use another VGA-adapter (or no X).

    The best experiences I made with G100/200 or Permedia 2.
    >
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    > Mark Hounschell
    > markh@compro.net
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    Mit freundlichen Grüssen / With kind regards,

            Stefan Fent

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