Tomas Brunclik wrote: > Hi, > I installed new binary kernel using package > kernel-image-2.6.0-1-686*.deb. I'm running Debian unstable. When I > select the new kernel in lilo menu it shows this message: > > Loading Linux......................... > BIOS data check successful > > The message then disappears and I have nice clean black screen - no > messages!. The only way to get out of it is to press the reset button. > The other two kernels I have still work normal - after the disappearing > of abovementioned message continues normal boot-up process with messages > listing. > During the installation of the kernel a message appeared, that it needs > initrd configured in lilo, so I edited lilo.conf and added the line > initrd=/initrd.img > It is link to 4MB uncompressed /boot/initrd-<kernelversion>.img > (untouched - as it came with the kernel package) - so I tried also to > put direct path to this file and also tried comment out the initrd line. > No difference. > So maybe I still have some stupid bug in lilo.conf, or it may be > something other - maybe: the /boot dir with all the kernels and initrd > image is part of the 5 GB root partition -so may it be that some file is > physically stored beyond some size border where it is unaccessible > during the boot process? > > Thanks for any hints. > Tomas IV. > > My lilo.conf (minus most comments): > ************************************* > lba32 > boot=/dev/hda > root=/dev/hda1 > > bitmap=/usr/share/lilo/contrib/sid.bmp > bmp-colors=1,,0,2,,0 > bmp-table=120p,173p,1,15,17 > bmp-timer=254p,432p,1,0,0 > install=/boot/boot-bmp.b > #install=/boot/boot-menu.b > > map=/boot/map > delay=20 > > # message=/boot/bootmess.txt > prompt > timeout=150 > #vga=791 > vga=normal > > append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce" > > default=Linux-suse > > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux-2.6 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.0-1-686 > #read-only > #optional > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-xfs > label=Linux > read-only > #restricted > #alias=1 > > image=/boot/suselinuz > label=Linux-suse > read-only > append="hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi apm=power-off nomce" > optional > #restricted > #alias=2 > > # If you have another OS on this machine to boot... > # > # other=/dev/hda4 > #label=HURD > #restricted > #alias=3 > ************************************* > I think the problem could be that the vesa-frambuffer driver isn't included in the factory-default initrd-image. Just add "vesfb" in the "/etc/mkinitrd/modules" file and execute as root "mkinitrd -o <path and name of new initrd-image-file>". Then put the path and name of the new initrd-image-file in lilo.conf.
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