On Monday 07 October 2002 04:03 am, you wrote: > On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 10:51:47PM -0500, Damon wrote: > > bought a full 7 CD set and just tried to install the system "fresh". > > Problem is, almost immediately after entering a boot loader option at the > > boot prompt, the text of my display gets completely broken up and > > unreadable. It > > What kernel are you using?
Using kernel 2.4.18. But I've tried standard "linux" and even "rescue" modes, too. The result is the same. > Have you tried booting with video=vga16:off as an argument to the kernel > image? Actually, yes! I stumbled across it a day or two after I wrote you the message, and now my video is fine. Can you explain why I require this option when booting Debian but not when I was using SuSE or Mandrake? Thanks for the follow-up. Much appreciated. --Damon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]