now, with framebuffer and console turned off, ... boot went much, much further, but not to completion
so I'm not clear if I'm just decreasing kernel size and hence changing where/when the boot crashes or if I really needed to turn the console option off NOTES ethernet drivers failed to find nics, I'll recompile w/ the drivers compiled directly into the kernel instead of as modules and see what happens boot message "Console: ttyS0" did appear the error message "zs_open ttyS0, tty overwrite" appears over and over on ttyS0 (i.e. where I have minicom watching the ttya serial port) bootlogd complained of not being able to access /dev/tty0 Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Heitzso