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Gentoo boot issue, possibly framebuffer?



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I was using genkernel. I recompiled manually without an initrd,  
turned off framebuffer support, and now everything seems ok. The last  
few times I ran genkernel, it couldn't generate the initrd correctly.

- -Josh

On Jun 29, 2005, at 5:28 PM, Chris Ampenberger wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 June 2005 11:49, Josh ChaitinPollak wrote:
>
>>
>> I've tried passing:
>>
>> video=vga16:off in to the kernel at boot time using grub, but that
>> doesn't seem to help. :(
>>
>
> I have a 2.6.11-r11 kernel, which is compiled with genkernel and I  
> use the
> following arguments in grub.conf: video=vesafb:1024x768-16 at 85
>
> genkernel did some patching to the kernel config, but I'm not sure  
> it had to
> do with the vesafb framebuffer. I believe it was for the bootsplash  
> support,
> but I don't use that any longer.
>
> Chris
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