Re: FC4 installer switching to garbled video after /sbin/loader

tfreeman_at_intel.digichem.net
Date: 10/24/05

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    On Mon, 24 Oct 2005, patrick wrote:

    > I'm having a problem installing FC4 on a machine with an "Integrated
    > VIA UniChrome AGP Graphics with MPEG-2 Accelerator" graphics adapter.
    >
    > I start up with "linux text" to enter text-mode installation, the
    > kernel starts and I see information about the hardware, and then just
    > after /sbin/loader loads, the screen changes video mode into something
    > that is all garbled. When the text installer starts, I can make out
    > the colours, but cannot read any text as it is shaking and garbled.
    > I've also tried booting up with vga=ask passed the kernel, picking a
    > standard 80x25 vga mode.
    >
    > Is there any way to have /sbin/loader NOT switch video modes? If it
    > would just stay in the same mode as when the kernel starts up, I'd be
    > fine.

    If I recall correctly, the way I did it with a Via mini-itx machine was to
    issue a "nofb" on the boot command, and disable the framebuffer.

    Hope I recall correctly, and that this helps. 

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