Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> writes: >> And just incase its something related to the newest kernel I've >> downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 and building from an old .config of 2.6.28. >> (not genkernel on this one) > > I think he was hoping that you would find something in your > chroot/var/log/messages file or something like that. boot from the CD, > mount the hard drive like you were doing an install, and then poke > around and see if anything got written and is still there. Just > hunting for clues. > > Do you have a digital camera? If so maybe it's fast enough to capture > the screen while it's scrolling and make the message semi-readable > even though they aren't to your eyes?
Just reporting some kind of fix here. I downgraded to 2.6.29-r2 kernel from `r5' and built it from my old .config from a different system. (with a few changes in accord with the difference in the kernels [ 2.6.28 to 2.6.29-r2 ]. On reboot it just worked.... no endlessly scrolling text. So maybe its someting related to 2.6.29-r5 kernel or related to building that kernel with genkernel. At any rate, it seems a bit too opaque of a problem to continue trying to sort out, now that I got something working. Thanks for the tips posters.
