Original message from: Guillaume Cottenceau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Con Kolivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> understand used a 2.2 kernel) without any problems. Since the 2.4
>> kernel has been adapted to the install disk I have not been able to
>> start an install. Each time after it finishes loading the kernel,
at
>> the stage where the frame buffer was used in the previous image
file,
>> I get a blank screen - no disk activity, no keyboard response,
unable
>> to reboot or open a console, even unable to communicate with the
>> kernel in raw keyboard mode - I have to hit the reset button. I can
>> still use the old install disk I created but the network card
>> detection and module loading fails.
>
>You can try to boot using "vga16"..
I'll give it a go
>> Here is a hardware profile if it helps from a previous boot. I'm
>> currently using an ET6000 graphics card as well.
>
>A bug with ET6000 and framebuffer!? :-((
Possibly, framebuffer works in my installed system but you might have
seen in my other posts elsewhere that if a framebuffer console is up
then X will always refuse to start (no screens) so I have to disable
Aurora and use a non framebuffer video mode for the kernel.
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