I'm trying to [re]install Debian on my wife's machine, a PIII/800 with 512MB ram. It has an nVidia GeForce 2 card and a pair of 30GB drives. It was formerly running Libranet (which is Debian based), with kernel 2.6.11. She was having some hard to pin down hardware problems (which I think was memory), as it turned out, and I figured since I had the machine down, I would rebuild and get rid of the cruft she's accumulated over the last 2 years or so.
I tried booting the latest etch installer, and found that when I took the default at boot (2.6.12), the text was a multicolor, garbled, nureadable mess. The dialog boxes were fine, but any text to the screen was trashed. I tested the 2.4 install, and the text was okay there. So I downloaded the sarge installer, and the same thing happened (though I have not yet tried the 2.4 install yet.) Booting Kanotix, which is 2.6.11-based as well as INSERT, which is also 2.6 gives me a normal display. Can somone tell me why this is happening only with the 2.6 kernel and only on the Debian installer cd? I am transferring data to another drive, but I will try vga=ask at startup to see if it helps. Regards -- --Brad ======================================================================== Bradley M. Alexander | IA Analyst, SysAdmin, Security Engineer | storm [at] tux.org ========================================================================
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