Re: Boot problem

From: Andy Fraser (andyfraser31_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 21:42:26 +0000

Daniel Lidström uttered the immortal words:

> I've managed to build the 2.4.24 kernel using genkernel (I followed
> instructions on gentoo.org). When I boot and select the kernel from grub
> boot menu all I get is a black screen, and, the diodes behind Caps Lock
> and Scroll Lock pulsate. What does *that* mean? Sigh...
> Thanks,

As others have said, it's a kernel panic. The only time I've seen the blank
screen is when I have "vga" set to use a framebuffer mode and boot with a
kernel that doesn't have framebuffer support compiled in. 

-- 
Andy.

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