Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
#include hallo.h Mark Zimmerman wrote on Sun Feb 10, 2002 um 09:44:07AM: Using the images from people.debian.org/~blade/bf2.4, I have gotten past the white screen problem and I am now at the 'Install the Base System' step. My network is configured and working (I can ping David: is there anything special on your building system? Do you use gcc-3, compilercache or other potential trouble makers? Why is this flashing-screen breakage not reproducible with my builds? Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Linux ist wie ein Pinguin im Wasser - elegant und geschmeidig. Und für manch andere Spezies auch durchaus gefährlich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
On Sun, Feb 10, 2002 at 04:53:17PM +, Philip Blundell wrote: On Sun, 2002-02-10 at 16:44, Mark Zimmerman wrote: Using the images from people.debian.org/~blade/bf2.4, I have gotten past the white screen problem and I am now at the 'Install the Base System' step. My network is configured and working (I can ping http.us.debian.org by name from VT2). When I select a network install and give it the OK, it immediately jumps back to the 'Choose the Language' screen. I seem to be in an infinite install loop... That indicates dbootstrap is crashing. Try booting with the debug argument and see if that gives any extra information. VT1 becomes this: *** Segmentation Fault Registers: EAX: 40068c00 EBX: 400e522c ECX: EDX: 0806470f EDI: 0070 ESI: 0001 EBP: b36c ESP: bfffed64 EIP: 40068dee EFLAGS: 00010246 Trap: 000e Code 0004 VT3 logs: Prior to exiting, dbootstrap said: Extracting base, Archive_Dir:netfetch Also, (this may be irrelevant) the logs showed several attempts to mount a cd drive. I don't have one on this machine and I never told dbootstrap that I did. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
#include hallo.h Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 07:46:33PM: options (comma should be space). So, I tried: linux floppy=thinkpad video=vga16:off Correct. init started: BusyBox ...(etc) VT2 repeatedly asks me to press Enter to activate this console but will not give me a shell. You mean it does exit immediately? VT3 shows that dbootstrap is repeatedly starting and exiting. Could you try my CVS boot floppies from people.debian.org/~blade/bf2.4 ? The problem you describe sound like the old newt-utf8 breakage, but I cannot reproduce it. I also tried (finally++) so see if I could get going with a serial console (console=ttyS0,9600). When I tried that, I got nothing on the screen and nothing out the serial port either. Same with ttyS1. Well, who can reproduce this problem too? All this sounds very mysterious to me, maybe caused by broken hardware or so. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- Wer Freiheit aufgibt, um Sicherheit zu bekommen, verdient keins der beiden und bekommt meist auch keins. -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
Greetings: I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4 boot floppies. It booted up and loaded root.bin without incident but dbootstrap gave me a solid white screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Hitting return caused the cursor to move down the screen so this does not appear to be a case of 'white on white' colors. I tried each of the following boot arguments but the symptoms were the same. linux floppy=thinkpad linux floppy=thinkpad,mono Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? I had previously booted successfully into dbootstrap with the reiserfs boot floppies and this problem did not exist. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
#include hallo.h Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 08:39:07AM: Greetings: I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4 Which kind of VGA chipset is used there? Anyways, if you come to the floppy change prompt, framebuffer is allready working for you. linux floppy=thinkpad linux floppy=thinkpad,mono Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? Please try with video=vga16:off and report the result. Gruss/Regards, Eduard. -- C: Ich möchte nicht länger Junge genannt werden. Ich finde den Ausdruck demütigend und sexistisch. H: Wie möchtest Du dann genannt werden? [aus Calvin and Hobbes C: Genetisch bevorzugter Jugendlicher.by Watterson] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#132990: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
Package: boot-floppies Severity: serious Version: 3.0.19 see below. Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 08:39:07AM -0700 wrote: Greetings: I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4 boot floppies. It booted up and loaded root.bin without incident but dbootstrap gave me a solid white screen with a blinking cursor in the upper left corner. Hitting return caused the cursor to move down the screen so this does not appear to be a case of 'white on white' colors. I tried each of the following boot arguments but the symptoms were the same. linux floppy=thinkpad linux floppy=thinkpad,mono Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? I had previously booted successfully into dbootstrap with the reiserfs boot floppies and this problem did not exist. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 08:39:07AM: Greetings: I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4 Which kind of VGA chipset is used there? Anyways, if you come to the floppy change prompt, framebuffer is allready working for you. Can I find out the VGA chipset from dmesg or something? Anyhow, video seems to work fine except for dbootstrap. I switched to the second VT and got the prompt and was able to do a 'ps ax' which showed dbootstrap running. I was hoping to be able to pass dbootstrap an argument that would make it all better. linux floppy=thinkpad linux floppy=thinkpad,mono Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? Please try with video=vga16:off and report the result. Actually, I believe that I did try this one also, with the same effects; I just forgot to mention it. I will doublecheck it this evening. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: bf2.4 dbootstrap white screen of death
On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 05:45:07PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: #include hallo.h Mark Zimmerman wrote on Fri Feb 08, 2002 um 08:39:07AM: Greetings: I tried out a new installation on an IBM Thinkpad 560X with the bf2.4 Which kind of VGA chipset is used there? Anyways, if you come to the floppy change prompt, framebuffer is allready working for you. linux floppy=thinkpad linux floppy=thinkpad,mono Can anyone suggest a workaround for this? Please try with video=vga16:off and report the result. I ran a bunch of new tests and here are the results: linux floppy=thinkpad,video=vga16:off results in the white screen as previously described. However, looking through dmesg yielded the clue that this is an ill-formatted set of options (comma should be space). So, I tried: linux floppy=thinkpad video=vga16:off and it booted to the point where it asks for the root floppy, but when I put it in I got I/O errors and a kernel panic. Apparently I ought not to use floppy=thinkpad on my thinkpad and the original badly formatted command kept it from using it. Next, I tried linux video=vga16:off and it loaded the root floppy successfully but things went astray after that. VT1 gets to the point where it says: init started: BusyBox ...(etc) VT2 repeatedly asks me to press Enter to activate this console but will not give me a shell. VT3 shows that dbootstrap is repeatedly starting and exiting. Finally, I tried booting with no options. This returned me to the original white screen problem. This time, I thought to look at VT3 for the logs and found that dbootstrap started and exited several times. The last log message shows that it exited and was scheduled for restart. A ps ax in VT2 shows it running though. I also tried (finally++) so see if I could get going with a serial console (console=ttyS0,9600). When I tried that, I got nothing on the screen and nothing out the serial port either. Same with ttyS1. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
