RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 24 August, 2005 5:48 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand without genkernel. ...and so I did. Well, almost. I used genkernel --menuconfig --no-clean all In the config, I disabled framebuffer support and Gentoo now nicely boots :-) Thanks all for your replies!!! Next stop: Java and sound (should be plenty of howto's for them) Marcel Romijn -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw (nothing more) Im assuming you removed any references to frame-buffers in grub.conf after building a new kernel without framebuffer support? Also, did you use genkernel to build your kernel? You might want to try building the kernel by hand instead. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
-Original Message- From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 23 August, 2005 16:08 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: vesafb: VBE version: 3.0 vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:8846 vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c8897, set palette = c00c88f7 vesafb: pmi: ports = b4c3 b503 d403 d503 cc03 d703 d803 d903 ff03 vesafb: hardware supports DDC2 transfers vesafb: monitor limits: vf = 200 Hz, hf = 133 kz, clk = 350 MHz vesafb: scrolling: redraw (nothing more) Im assuming you removed any references to frame-buffers in grub.conf after building a new kernel without framebuffer support? Also, did you use genkernel to build your kernel? Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? I used to initially have video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] in the kernel parameters. However, I removed it when the boot process stalled after vesafb: scrolling: redraw So it looks like I could go two ways: - Configure the framebuffer properly in grub.conf. - Build a new kernel with framebuffer disabled. I would prefer the first option... You might want to try building the kernel by hand instead. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Marcel Romijn -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
-Original Message- From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 23 August 2005 16:19 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). Perhaps adding -nofb to the kernel will help? Also, why did you change your [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] - did you change your monitor? -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
From: Holly Bostick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 8/23/2005 5:18 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1 Marcel Romijn schreef: I assumed that even though the kernel has framebuffer support built in, it won't use it if it is not configured as kernel parameter in grub.conf. Maybe that was a wrong assumption? Yes, it was. The settings in grub.conf are supposed to override the kernel settings. But if the framebuffer is set in the kernel, naturally the kernel is going to start the framebuffer. It is, after all, the kernel, and the kernel is king of the hill. If you don't want a framebuffer, remove framebuffer support from your kernel config. Hmmm..., I just followed the installation handbook. Plain, unmodified kernel configuration, which has framebuffer support enabled. At the chapter of configuring grub, it mentiones that using the framebuffer was optional. quote If you have configured your kernel with framebuffer support (or you used genkernel's default kernel configuration), you can activate it by adding a vga and/or a video statement to your bootloader configuration file. /quote I tried some kernel parameters in grub.conf: video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] Because I read in a mailing list about vesafb not being able to switch refresh rates (might have been an old mailing list) Still stalls. video=vesafb-tng:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Removed the mtrr and ywarp in case they were not supported. Still stalls. video=vesafb:[EMAIL PROTECTED] In case 'vesafb-tng' is not supported but 'vesafb' is. Still stalls, but messes up the remaining text on the screen. In the mean time, I have done the same install in VMware. That install boots (succesfully!) with the video=vesafb-tng:mtrr,ywrap,[EMAIL PROTECTED] setting!! (Although in 640x480, but that's caused by VMware). So my conclusion is that there is something with my hardware configuration. I'm using a VIA Epia ME6000 Mini ITX board. I had Gentoo 2005.0 running on this board, so maybe something changed in this area between 2005.0 and 2005.1? When I boot this board with the Gentoo 2005.1 LiveCD, it seems to use the framebuffer. The isolinux.cfg mentions vga=791, but that doesn't seem to solve my problem as well. Unless there's a setting in grub.conf to disable the previously-initialized framebuffer. If there was, you could use that, but I don't even know if such a setting exists, and seems like extra work in any case (enabling the framebuffer just to disable it with an override that may or may not work). -nofb , as suggested by Michael Kintzios, did not help. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Thanks for the help so far... Marcel Romijn winmail.dat
RE: [gentoo-user] Boot stalls after install of 2005.1
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Marcel Romijn wrote: Yes, I used everything as default as possible. I used 'genkernel' to build my kernel with the default configuration. Many people have problems when uysing genkernel to build their kernels, so I will repeat my earlier advice: build the kernel by hand without genkernel. -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
