You can try taking out vga_proble() from multiboot. It makes a few BIOS calls to get some properties related to the video display. You can set the display property manually either in xorg.conf (if you use Xorg) or via kdmconfig (if you use Xsun).
Shudong > > Hello, > > I've been trying to install SXCR builds 40 (or 41 or something), 44, 46 on my server. It's a dual Pentium II @ 333MHz, 256MB RAM ( I know a bit lower end, but... ), Cirrus Logic GD 5430/40 [Alpine] (according to pciids.sourceforge.net) video card (1MB video ram). I want a text-only install, no use for X on that server. > > The problem is that almost as soon as the multiboot executable boots from the grub menu, the kernel hangs and my monitor displays a weird screen. Every character block (80x25) has a different background colour, an ASCII character (mostly > 128), and some are blinking (like an Apple ][ crash screen). This looks to me like video memory corruption. > > The only place where I would see such a thing taking place is during > vga_probe in vgaprobe.c line 140: > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/psm/stand/boot/i386/common/vga probe.c#140 > > I know it happens very early in the boot process because if I boot with -Vv arguments I am able to catch about half a screen of text. If I boot without the module line in grub I get a few lines less than what I am able to glimpse at normally (then it panics because it can't mount the ramdisk, of course - and all this happens before vga_probe). > > What can I do about this? I can try recompiling the kernel without calling vga_probe() - it doesn't seem like it would make too big of a problem later on in the boot process. What are your opinions? > > > Thank you very much, > Alex Roman. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-code mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
