> On Sun, Jun 10, 2001 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > >> Well, I finally got my 2.4 kernel to compile, using BenH's tree, rsync'd >> and all. But then try to boot using it? Didn't work. What sorts of >> details do I need to provide? Are there any "gotchas" I should know >> about? > > How far do you get? Where exactly does it die? >
Well, it seems to boot up, but I think it then hits some kind of loop, since it puts the same message up over and over...I don't think it gets as far as mounting any partitions, because when I reverted back to my (working) 2.2.18 kernel, I get no fsck messages... <snip> > >> .... Currently I've got the extra >> arguments set at video=tdfx:[EMAIL PROTECTED], and I compiled 3dfx into the >> 2.4 kernel. > > You should be able to get away w/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I did this, but it didn't work. All blank... > >> When I start up with this setting (using the 2.4), I get the >> most interesting color scheme, and I can't read any of the console >> messages. If I remove the arguments, I get a completely blank screen >> (and therefore I can't read the console, either :-) > > Can you get in remotely and see how it's doing? tdfxfb could have > issues once again on PPC machines.. You mean like a zterm from another machine? What would be the args to put so that I could see the output? Thanks for the help! Russell
