Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[lich]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote:
>  > After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
>  > the traditional init message is not even displayed
>  > ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
>  > It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.
>  >
>  > I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
>  > I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
>  > real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
>  > Any Idea of what it might be ?
>
> Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config.
> (That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in
>  its EDID parser, see
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/052.html
>  which still isn't fixed...)
>
>               Dave
>
>
>
Thanks Dave.

I did that, and it left me with the kernel booting, but still no VT.
In fact, it appeared that rivafb that I use (says it detected my geForce
2, nevertheless ...) didn't do anything. I suppressed it and used vesafb
instead, and that was it.
I have now another strange problem, but I think I am not the only one to
experience it.

modprobe fails on /etc/modules.devfs and /etc/modules.conf at each
probeall line.
therefore, I dont have all modules up, particularly no mouse, no sound,
no pcmcia, no acpi, no ide-scsi cdrw/dvd ....

the message is
 modprobe: WARNING: /etc/modules.xxxx line xx: ignoring bad line
starting with 'probeall'

my modules.devfs only has probeall lines.
I use it also for my 2.4 kernels. What should I do ?? updated my
modultils to use modprobe-25. It looks like it doesn't support probeall
yet. Do I change all probeall for simple probes ?
The idea of  compiliing most of the modules into the kernel doesn't
appeal to me that much.

Is there any known workaround ?


Please cc me as I did not suscribe yet.

-anthony


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Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[Rahul Karnik]

> modprobe fails on /etc/modules.devfs and /etc/modules.conf at each
> probeall line.
> therefore, I dont have all modules up, particularly no mouse, no sound,
> no pcmcia, no acpi, no ide-scsi cdrw/dvd ....

Download, compile and install the latest module-init-tools from:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/

There are other things you may need for 2.5 kernels after migrating from 
a 2.4 setup. Dave Jones has documented some of these at:

http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt

-Rahul

Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[Horst von Brand]

Anthony Lichnewsky <lich@tuxfamily.org> said:
> After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
> the traditional init message is not even displayed
> ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
> It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.

Are you sure it isn't silently booting? My notebook does that with
2.5.7[45] (perhaps earlier) vga=0x317 (needed earlier to use the full
screen for VT; Toshiba 1800, Trident CyberBlade XPAi1 (rev 82) graphic
board stealing RAM for video)
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Re: 2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:50:31PM +0200, Anthony Lichnewsky wrote:
 > After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
 > the traditional init message is not even displayed
 > ( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
 > It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.
 > 
 > I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
 > I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
 > real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
 > Any Idea of what it might be ?

Try CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=n. If that doesn't help, post your .config.
(That config option really needs to tighten up what it does in
 its EDID parser, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2003-20/0572.html
 which still isn't fixed...)

		Dave

2.5.75 doesn't boot at all on x86

[Anthony Lichnewsky]

After lilo, the kernel is uncompressed, then the screen goes black.
the traditional init message is not even displayed
( INIT version 2.85 booting ).
It accepts Ctrl+Alt+Suppr for reboot. but that's it.

I checked that CONFIG_VT, CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE are set in my .config.
I suspect the initrd image is not loaded correctly, but I don't have any
real clue. It was generated with mkinitrd version 3.4.43.
Any Idea of what it might be ?

please cc me.

-anthony