Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-25 Thread Greg Turner
The essence of your problem is: you need a working console during your boot sequence if you want to see anything. For an X86 'puter the main two ways to get that are: the VGA console, and the framebuffer console (CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE, almost always works in a pinch unless you boot from EFI, in

[gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-24 Thread walt
On 05/24/2014 01:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel 3.12.13. (I just upgraded to 3.12.20-gentoo, so now it's something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Kernel boot messages are no longer displayed

2014-05-24 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 24 May 2014 16:53, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/24/2014 01:20 PM, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Since kernel 3.12.13 (3.12.13-gentoo), the kernel boot messages have disappeared, i.e. they are no longer displayed at boot time. All I get is a line like Loading kernel 3.12.13. (I just upgraded