On Friday 27 June 2003 15:02, Alberto Bert wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to install gentoo (it's the first time) on a toshiba 5200-801
>
> P 4 M 2.0 GHz
> 512 MB
> lot of cards
> ...
>
> I followed the installation instruction on the gentoo site but I've got
> a big problem.
> Grub seems to work, but when I select gentoo it prints for a moment on
> screen the title I set in grub, then everything becomes black, the Caps
> Lock kye start blinking (???) and I can do nothing else than switching
> off :-(
>
> I selected the gentoo kernel 2.4.20 from the LiveCD and I compiled
> everything (stage 1)
>
> Anyone has an idea in what's going on?
Seems as if your vga mode of the framebuffer is not compatible with the
graphics board. Try "vga=off" (or similar, don't know exactly) to see the
boot messages.
The blinking leds seems to indicate a kernel panic, usually, because the
root filesystem could not be loaded. If you see the output on your screen,
you should find out which device driver/filesystem you forgot to compile in
to your kernel
Greetings,
Alex
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