On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 19:15, Jeff Cours wrote: > Hi, everyone - > > I'm having a rather odd problem. Following an upgrade a few weeks ago, > my lilo menu, the boot messages, and the shutdown messages all vanished. > There's still a signal coming to the monitor (I can tell because the > monitor hasn't gone into power save), but the screen is blank, like it > looks when the console's screen blanking cuts in.[1] > > Here's the sequence: > 1. power up or reboot > 2. BIOS messages come up > 3. Drive search. Brief messages about nothing bootable in CD-ROM or floppy. > 4. When the LILO menu would normally appear, the screen goes blank. > 5. At this point, I can still control lilo: hit enter, and I get linux, > or cursor-down twice and hit enter and I get Windows. > 6. Long pause while black messages scroll past on a black screen. Very > long pause if the kernel decides to fsck a drive. > 7. Eventually, KDM fires up normally and I get a graphical login screen. > 8. If I then tell KDM to shutdown or reboot, I get back to black > messages on a black screen until the system shuts down the hard drive. > (It's an ACPI motherboard, not an APM one. I'm still trying to get > automatic power-down to work properly.) > > Switching LILO from menu to text mode doesn't seem to change the > situation. There is nothing obvious in dmesg or /var/log/messages. > > If I boot from the boot floppy, I get readable console messages.
What does /var/log/dmesg look like? Could it be trying to unsuccessfully boot up in framebuffer mode? -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Basically, I got on the plane with a bomb. Basically, I | | tried to ignite it. Basically, yeah, I intended to damage | | the plane." | | RICHARD REID, who tried to blow up American Airlines | | Flight 63 | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
