Package: boot-floppies Version: 3.0.23-2002-05-21 The kernel used in the bf2.4 boot floppies for i386 seems to use the vga16 FB by default. While this gives a cute little penguin logo on most machines, it also gives a blank screen on many machines using an LCD panel for it's display (at least on an SiS based system, and on my IBM 560X thinkpad, and a few others I have talked to people using).
Booting with video=vga16:off fixes the problem by eliminating the FB. Does booting the installer with a framebuffer actually increase the number of supported machines on i386 in any case? It certainly decreases the number of machines I have seen it work on, and I can't imagine any i386 machine that plain text mode would not work on. I suggest the next boot-floppies for woody have this driver disabled by default (could be as simple as setting the above setting installer's syslinux config, but it would also have to be added to the lilo parameters when setting up lilo during the install to avoid a problem on first boot.) Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
