Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
On Thursday 15 March 2001 12:42 pm, Adam Baxter wrote: Yet that's the wierd thing, I shouldn't have SCSI on my computer..the commands came with the origional kernel on Madrake 7.2. How would I turn the SCSI emulation off? Usually the line append=" hdd=ide-scsi" is in there to accomodate a CD-RW or some CDroms that need scsi emulation. If you have neither, try removing that line from lilo.conf. You may or may not still need an initrd.img. It's not entirely clear to me, but you may need ram disk suppport if you leave scsi emulation in the kernel, or use the fb device for Aurora (ie, vga=788). I believe the safe thing to do would be to go ahead and make an initrd.img. I think that's why your kernel can't load into ram (ie, black screen) -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html
Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html here's my lilo conf as an example: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-tom label=242-tom root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-tom.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Wednesday 14 March 2001 09:26 pm, Adam Michael Baxter wrote: Well, I took myself onto a limb and tried to have fun with kernels. I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel and did as the instructions said. It compiled greately and as it should have (I guess). Then I installed the kernel in my boot directory and updated lilo (keeping my old linux kernel). To test it out, I rebooted and selected the new kernel. Then the screen turns black. Nothing happens. it doesn't boot, give an error message or anything. Its depressing, I was atleast hoping for some upsetting "you've destroyed your computer" deal. Having nothing is really depressing ^^ I took a look at the lilo config file and it seems to be in order. Heres the main part: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=new keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/mykernel-2.4.0 label=new root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide0-scsi" vga=788 read-only the first image is pretty much copying my first linux boot configuration. anyone have any ideas of what I did wrong? Thanks! Adam
RE: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
Yet that's the wierd thing, I shouldn't have SCSI on my computer..the commands came with the origional kernel on Madrake 7.2. How would I turn the SCSI emulation off? Adam Baxter -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tom Brinkman Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 10:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html here's my lilo conf as an example: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-tom label=242-tom root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-tom.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
Remove vga=788 from the lilo.conf file and try to reboot again From: Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 09:00:46 -0600 Your lilo conf shows you are using scsi emulation, but the line is wrong. Should be:append=" hdd=ide-scsi" Also, you must have scsi enabled in the kernel, and 'mkinitrd' a ram disk image as per the instructions here: http://mandrakeuser.org/install/kupgrade3.html here's my lilo conf as an example: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-tom label=242-tom root=/dev/hdb5 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-tom.img append=" hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only -- Dale Earnhardt, the greatest stock car driver ever, he's won his 8th and His Greatest Championship Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Wednesday 14 March 2001 09:26 pm, Adam Michael Baxter wrote: Well, I took myself onto a limb and tried to have fun with kernels. I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel and did as the instructions said. It compiled greately and as it should have (I guess). Then I installed the kernel in my boot directory and updated lilo (keeping my old linux kernel). To test it out, I rebooted and selected the new kernel. Then the screen turns black. Nothing happens. it doesn't boot, give an error message or anything. Its depressing, I was atleast hoping for some upsetting "you've destroyed your computer" deal. Having nothing is really depressing ^^ I took a look at the lilo config file and it seems to be in order. Heres the main part: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=new keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/mykernel-2.4.0 label=new root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide0-scsi" vga=788 read-only the first image is pretty much copying my first linux boot configuration. anyone have any ideas of what I did wrong? Thanks! Adam _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
[newbie] Kernel woes. Black screen of nothingness
Well, I took myself onto a limb and tried to have fun with kernels. I downloaded the 2.4.2 kernel and did as the instructions said. It compiled greately and as it should have (I guess). Then I installed the kernel in my boot directory and updated lilo (keeping my old linux kernel). To test it out, I rebooted and selected the new kernel. Then the screen turns black. Nothing happens. it doesn't boot, give an error message or anything. Its depressing, I was atleast hoping for some upsetting "you've destroyed your computer" deal. Having nothing is really depressing ^^ I took a look at the lilo config file and it seems to be in order. Heres the main part: boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b vga=normal default=new keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/mykernel-2.4.0 label=new root=/dev/hda5 append=" hdd=ide0-scsi" vga=788 read-only the first image is pretty much copying my first linux boot configuration. anyone have any ideas of what I did wrong? Thanks! Adam
