Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote:
 > After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
 > the traditional init message is not even displayed
 > ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
 > It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.
 > 
 > I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
 > I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
 > real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
 > Any Idea of what it might be ?

Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config.
(That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in
 its EDID parser, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/0572.html
 which still isn't fixed...)

		Dave