Martin Baillie wrote:
>Nope, Before it even show's the assorted processes
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>From: "Martin McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 5:22 PM
>Subject: [scottish] upgrading 2.4.5 to 2.4.9
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>>>I just upgraded my 2.4.5 kernel to 2.4.9 but when I rebooted the system
>>>
>it
>
>>>gave me a blank screen. I did everything right, edited and re-run LILO,
>>>
>but
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>>>then this happened.
>>>
>>>Has this ever happened to anyone else?
>>>
>>Did it go through a normal boot-up with assorted processes getting
>>started then give you a blank screen? Or did it hang before booting?
>>Or did it try to start X and the screen went blank? Or some other
>>variation on a blank-screen-theme?
>>
>>If your machine normally starts X automatically, and if it is now
>>booting OK but X isn't starting properly, then you might to consider the
>>below. If it's something else, I think we need some more information in
>>order to help.
>>
>>If you use DRI/DRM I believe that 2.4.9 builds DRM drivers that are
>>appropriate for XFree 4.1 rather than 4.0.x and that might be causing a
>>problem for you. You might want to change your kernel configuration
>>options and/or your XFree configuration to not use DRM and see if that
>>makes a difference.
>>
>>There will hopefully be a clue in the X log file which is probably
>>/var/log/XFree86.0.log or something similar.
>>
>>M
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This has happened to me a number of times, i dont know what causes it
but i usually un break it by looking at my options and checking i
havent done anything silly like disabled the console, i rarely change
anything, but anyway a make bzImage later and a new lilo and it seems to
sort it out.
Have you tried make bzDisk and booting that?
HTH
David
P.S if your using fbdev check your config for that sometimes that can
really screw up the boot process.
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