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/vgaprobe.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
