Hi Stew et all, I just completed the installation of beta2 on my old lombard pb. Installation was smooth as can be, not a single problem. However, when I try to boot into linux through BootX, it's not bringing up any video. The boot process looks fine, all modules load succesfully, and all devices seem to be found. But after the init, it tries to go into KDM and just gives me a black screen. I am unable to switch to another term (might be me using the wrong keys, I'm an x86 guy usually), or do anything really. If I boot from the generic vmlinuz without any initrd, KDM comes up fine, and I can login to KDE. However, none of the modules are loaded of course, and it's basically rendered useless.
I have tried several different kernel options for video, but none seem to make a difference. during install I used video=atyfb:vmode:14. I have of course copied the vmlinuz & initrd files from the cd into my system folder/linux kernels/. Any ideas to help me get under way would be greatly appreciated. -Dan -- Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems. -- Linus Torvalds
