On Saturday 08 March 2003 06:48 am, Adrian Golumbovici wrote: > OK. I fiddled some more with it (a few hours). None of the parameters you > gave me worked. Same problem. With the enterprise kernel there is a small > difference which I noticed just now (or at least in the 12mdk enterprise > kernel from cooker). It lights Scroll lock and Caps lock but doesn't blink. > They just stay on. I tried booting failsafe and what do you know... It > booted and reported my memory ok (1.032.900k). Then I tried adjusting the > 12mdk parameters one by one to reflect the ones in failsafe and I isolated > this one to be causing the kernel panic: > vga=788 > I switched again all the parameters to the original from the 12mdk > enterprise kernel but left this vga=788 out and it booted with no problem. > What the heck is/does vga=788 and why does it cause PCs to freeze when 1G > memory installed?!? :/ > > Best regards, > Adrian > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Todd Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 2:02 AM > Subject: Re: [expert] new memory 512MB module (total 1024MB) and linux > won't boot and also installer doesn't work anymore
that number is a video mode, were was it that you changed it (in lilo? compileing a kernel? how long did you let the "lockup" sit? you may have just been booting using a mode your video card could not do, so rather than do a display that would hurt the card, you got no display, and it "may" have come back had you let it sit 3 mins with a working X, or at leasta command prompt
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